Tom Peters Quotes

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Adapt or die.

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

You've got to adapt - or get out.

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

There is never only one, of anyone

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.