Famous quotes by »

Tom Peters

Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for, In Search of Excellence (co-authored with Robert H. Waterman, Jr)

Update this biography »
Complete biography of Tom Peters »

0 fans

Sort by:PopularityA - Z

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

Good managers have a bias for action.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

Underpromise overdeliver.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

– Tom Peters

Rate it:

Share your thoughts on Tom Peters's quotes with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive

Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this author page to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Tom Peters Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2025. Web. 24 Jan. 2025. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/Tom+Peters+Quotes>.

Missing a quote of Tom Peters?

Know another good quote of Tom Peters? Don't keep it to yourself!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Our favorite collection of

Famous Authors

George Bernard Shaw
1856 - 1950
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
George Washington
1732 - 1799
Abraham Lincoln
1809 - 1865
Socrates
470 BC - 399 BC
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 - 1968
Emily Dickinson
1830 - 1886

Browse Quotes.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Quotes

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

What if my whole life has been wrong?

A Marilyn Monroe

B Mike Tyson

C Leo Tolstoy

D J.R.R. Tolkien