Tom Peters Quotes

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

Finding a better way is all I do.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

I'm always looking to move on to the next thing.

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

I'm going to keep innovating.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.

You have to keep evolving.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.