Tom Peters Quotes

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

There's a lot of businesses that are working hard, who are at the top of their games. Therefore, it's always going to be a market share fight.

This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.

The competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades

Our focus is to see that we are growing faster than the industry and, whichever product we launch, we do better than competition. We try and manage our operations better than competition. Essentially, we try to be better than what we were the previous year.

Our objective is always to win. Every day, every game, and every competition.

Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.

The individual Siemens businesses must be able to keep up with the specialists in the industry and be at least as good as their strongest competitors.

Any time you go on the field, you want to dominate as a unit.

If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.

For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt.

Understanding how to compete better has really made a difference.

I'm in this sport to win but win by being the best, not by being lucky.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

Competition is something that brings you to the next level because if you have no competition, and you know you are starting week in, week out, it takes a little bit of the quality.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

One of the things I think you're always conscious of is we're in the winning business.

The only thing I could do better than Peyton was run.

Exceptional firms have always been good at aligning their mission or purpose with their execution and, as a result, have enjoyed category leadership in sales and profits.

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.