Tom Peters: Excellence

Tom Peters is American writer on business management practices. Explore interesting quotes on excellence.

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“If you want to achieve Excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than Excellent work. The first 99.9% of getting from here to there is the determination to do it and not to compromise, no matter what set of road blocks those around you erect.”

November 11, 2013.
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“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”

Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 9.

“Success is about executing what you are doing today with unquestionable, breathtaking excellence.”

13 February 2017
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“The Peters Principles: Enthusiasm. Emotion. Excellence. Energy. Excitement. Service. Growth. Creativity. Imagination. Vitality. Joy. Surprise. Independence. Spirit. Community. Limitless human potential. Diversity. Profit. Innovation. Design. Quality. Entrepreneurialism. Wow.”

November 21, 2011.
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“Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. 75.

“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”

Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 53.

“Every excellent company we studied is clear on what it stands for, and takes the process of value shaping seriously. In fact, we wonder whether it is possible to be an excellent company without clarity on values and without having the right sorts of values.”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. 280.

“EXCELLENCE in <140 Characters: Cherish your people, cuddle your customers, wander around, “try it” beats “talk about it,” Excellence or else, tell the truth.”

TomPeters.com - Abu Dhabi, World Strategy Summit, Main Program, November 17, 2015

“Passionate servant leaders, determined to create a legacy of earthshaking transformation in their domain create/must necessarily create organizations which are … no less than Cathedrals in which the full and awesome power of the Imagination and Spirit and native Entrepreneurial flair of diverse individuals is unleashed … In passionate pursuit of jointly perceived soaring purpose and personal and community and client service Excellence.”

24 December 2018
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