Tom Peters Excellence Quotations

'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Do it, fix it, try it.

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

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

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

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

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.