Tom Peters Quotes

If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!

I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

He who shoots first laughs last.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."