Tom Peters Quotes


"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Business, Success, Company, Customer)

"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Design, Quality, Improvement, Manufacturing)

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Want)

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Communication)

"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Design, Meeting)

"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Change, Excellence, Improvement)

"If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Policy, Company)

"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Followers, Leaders)

"South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Challenge, Tools)

"Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast."
- Tom Peters
"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people."
- Tom Peters
(Related: People, Successful, Employees, Formula, Guests, Magic)

"We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments."
- Tom Peters
(Related: People)

"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Change, Enthusiasm, Energy, Past)

"Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune."
- Tom Peters
"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Opportunity)