Tom Peters Quotes

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.

One word that seems to connect both leaders and employees is: 'outcomes.' Built into that word is the implicit and explicit understanding and agreement that effective actions lead to good outcomes; ineffective actions lead to poor outcomes.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.

Disney truly stands alone, not only because of the company's phenomenal creativity, but also because of the thousands of remarkable people who make it such an extraordinary place.

Without trust, no organization can sustain innovation because without trust, no one is willing to take the risks that innovation requires.

It's all about communication, culture and competing every day.

I just want to make sure whatever I take on, I can deliver.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.