Tom Peters Quotes

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.'

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.