Tom Peters Quotes

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

The second you get set in your ways is the second a newer, fresher, more innovative company is going to come in and take your market share.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

I can be really fast, but other people are in the race. So you've got to be able to maneuver around those guys, and you have to be a little more versatile out there on the ice. I bring my fitness that I gained from the long track over to here. Hopefully, I'll be able to put it to good use.

Information is power. Particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.

The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.

I learn from all our major competitors, whether they're in or out of the U.S. Wells Fargo is very actively, very aggressively, and very successfully building its U.S. investment bank.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.