{"id":2164,"date":"2005-01-26T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T23:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2005-01-26T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T23:31:35","slug":"tom-peters-master-of-quotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/tom-peters-master-of-quotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Peters, Master of Quotation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Peters may write in an unconventional manner, but it allows him to get ideas across in a remarkably concise fashion, as he does in his This I Believe! manifesto at ChangeThis<\/a>. He reads a huge amount, and I found some valuable tidbits within for design inspiration:<\/p>\n

### Quoted in This I Believe<\/cite><\/p>\n

* “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.” — Dee Hock, Visa founder<\/p>\n

* “Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.” — Phil Daniels<\/p>\n

* “You can’t be a serious innovator unless you are willing and able to play. ‘Serious play’ is not an oxymoron; it’s the essence of innovation.” — Michael Schrage<\/p>\n

* “Leaders achieve their effectiveness largely through the stories they relate” — Howard Gardner<\/p>\n

* “We shape our buildings. Thereafter they shape us.” — Churchill<\/p>\n

* “I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of.” — Richard Branson<\/p>\n

* “There’s no use trying,’ said Alice. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'” — Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n

* The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo<\/p>\n

* “Nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne<\/p>\n

* “You can pretend to care. You cannot pretend to be there.” — Texas Bix Bender<\/p>\n

* “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi<\/p>\n

* “The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.” — William James, psychologist<\/p>\n

* “The two most powerful things in existence–a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.” — Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot<\/p>\n

* “You must care.” — Melvin Zais, General, U.S. Army<\/p>\n

* “A leader is a dealer in hope” — Napoleon<\/p>\n

### And a few words of his own:<\/p>\n

* Question authority! (And hire disrespectful people!)<\/p>\n

* It is the foremost task–and responsibility–of this generation to re-imagine all of our institutions, private and public.<\/p>\n

* Action…ALWAYS…takes precedence.<\/p>\n

* Do…NOW. Think…later. At the very least, you’ll have something to think about since you’ve just done…something.<\/p>\n

* He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!<\/p>\n

* Two Trends Worth Trillions, as in Trillion$$$. Namely: (1) Women buy All the Stuff (2) We’re getting older!<\/p>\n

* Powerlessness is an advantage, not a disadvantage. Why? Because “powerless” people work in nooks and crannies, and are invisible enough to be able to surreptitiously pursue contrarian strategies.<\/p>\n

* I once watched a highly energetic chief ripped asunder by a senior member of his board. “Richard,” the determined board member almost shouted, “you are smart, energetic, creative to a fault, perhaps even a genius. But much of your ‘genius’ is dissipated because you apply it to ten different things at a time, albeit with great skill.”<\/p>\n

“Let me tell you what you need,” he concluded. “A ‘to don’t’ list.”<\/p>\n

* Major change takes…30 days…or 3 Years. Your choice!<\/p>\n

* Fun is not a Four-Letter Word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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