Tom Peters Quotes

What gets measured, gets done.

What gets measured, gets done….Results measurement is now mainstreamed

Progress is made where progress is measured.

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Data not only measures progress—it inspires it. Once you start measuring problems, people are more inclined to take action to fix them, because nobody wants to end up at the bottom of a list of rankings.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

My actual passion is getting things done.

It's important to complete things and finish what you started.

My job is to get things done.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.