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Tom Peters Quotes

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1942

Topics

Cool Stop Follow Old Mantra Being

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

John Frusciante

Time Yourself Fate Trying You Worst

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Meg Rosoff

Good Belief Books Contrary Popular

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

Roger Zelazny

Design Robots Expensive Handle Most

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical.

Maryanne Wolf

People Believe Think News Go Accept

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

Roy Blount, Jr.

Time Better Find I Can Said Say

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

Marvin Minsky

Simple Smart Problem You Integration

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

Michelle Wie

Men Stronger Distance Play More Get

I don't walk into a dinner party and say, 'You're an idiot; give me my coat.'

Don Rickles

Walk Me Dinner Idiot You Party

My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.

Dolores O'Riordan

Me Thought Important More Mean Kids

Shared dining fortifies us.

Deng Ming-Dao

Dining Us Shared

Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

Douglas Rushkoff

Someone Data Enough Credit Phone

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

Brad Dourif

Daughter Walk Friends Movies She