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It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.


Bernadette Peters

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TOM PETERS Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bol...
TOM PETERS Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.
TOM PETERS 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, drea...
TOM PETERS Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.
TOM PETERS Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
TOM PETERS The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
TOM PETERS Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
TOM PETERS Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
TOM PETERS Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it w...
TOM PETERS The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and e...
TOM PETERS Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
TOM PETERS If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
TOM PETERS Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processe...
TOM PETERS 'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a...
TOM PETERS That wasn't something I was very proud of. It was just stupid. I got caught up in the moment.
ANDREW PETERS We could play the same team 25 times. It doesn't matter. We have to play our best hockey. We have to...
ANDREW PETERS He knows the way the game is played, and he knows he has to fight to keep a career. He's obviously v...
ANDREW PETERS I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him fo...
ANDREW PETERS My first season at Buffalo, Geoff was at Rochester and I would come down from Buffalo to visit him a...
ANDREW PETERS It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I re...
MIKE PETERS I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent femal...
ELIZABETH PETERS I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. ...
EVAN PETERS Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
ELLIS PETERS For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmabl...
TOM PETERS Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
TOM PETERS If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women g...
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