Tom Peters Excellence Quotations

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

Do it, fix it, try it.

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.