Quotes from Tom Peters

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Quotes from Tom Peters

• Thinking about your business in different ways

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How do dominant companies lose their position?

• Two-thirds of the time, they pick the wrong
  competitor to worry about.

Don Listwin, CEO, Openwave Systems commenting on
Nokia
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Experiences are as different from services as
services are from goods
Joseph Pine and James Gilmore The Experience
Economy
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that
our aim is too high and we miss it, but rather
that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
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You do not merely want to be the best at what
you do. You want to be the only one who does what
you do.
Jerry Garcia
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If you dont like change, youre going to like
irrelevance even less
General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, US Army
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Get differentvsGet better
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Read it closely We dont sell insurance any
more. We sell speed.
Peter Lewis Progressive Insurance
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Value innovation is about making the competition
irrelevant by creating uncontested market space.
We argue that beating the competition within the
confines of the existing industry is not the way
to create profitable growth.
Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne From Blue Ocean
Strategy
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Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to
small things. Rather, make big changes to big
things.
Roger Enrico former Chairman, PepsiCo