Tom Peters Quotations

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

Only pissed-off people change the world.