{"id":9319,"date":"2016-05-13T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:34:46","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Thomas_J._Peters_16_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=9319","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Thomas J. Peters (16 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer<\/b><\/div>\n
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Leaders and Leadership<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Imagination<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Communication<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Excellence<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Books and Reading<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Giving<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Good managers have a bias for action.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Management<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Opportunity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Company<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Leaders and Leadership<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Leaders and Leadership<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Business<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Praise<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Train everyone lavishly, you can't overspend on training.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Training<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Environment<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.<\/div>\n
Thomas J. Peters – [Change<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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