The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom PetersWe're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
Tom PetersMastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Tom PetersAnybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
Tom Peters