Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
— Tom Peters
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tampa Electric has used apprenticeships since 1978 to make sure its workforce is the best in the business - trained, prepared, and productive. Apprenticeships improve its bottom line and give the company a competitive advantage.
— Tom Perez
What we want to do is call attention to the fact that when workers and business work together, when you create a stakeholder model of corporate governance, where you understand that you can do well by your workers, you can do well by your shareholders and you can do well by your customers, that's how we create a virtuous cycle.
Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
— Tom Jones
Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.
— Tom Hodgkinson
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
— Tom Hanks
I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.
— Tom Green
In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.
— Tom Douglas
The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
— Tom Dempsey
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
— Tom Cotton
A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
— Tom Colicchio
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
— Tom Brokaw
Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore.
— Tom Berenger
I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.
— Tom Anderson
'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.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the minimum-wage business model. I say phooey to that. You go to a Costco store, and you see people there who've been working there for years and years. They're making $15, $20 an hour, plus health benefits.
If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.
Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.
— Tom Morello
In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.
— Tom Hunter
Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
— Tom Hiddleston
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
Whenever you go on TV, there are so many checks and balances; it's a big business with a lot of rules. Stand-up is intimate and the freest, most lawless place I've ever been able to go.
I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business.
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
— Tom Courtenay
Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
— Tom Conti
We don't play the celebrity business in our family.
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
— Tom Bosley
I'm 85 years old. I've been in business since I was a teenager, practically; I was in grade school, and I even had a paper route. I always had a job so I could have money to spend on girls.
— Tom Benson
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
— Tom Allen
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
I've talked to several CEOs - from a recycling company in Indiana, a furniture company in Kentucky, a brewing company in Colorado, and more - who believe paying higher wages is both the right thing to do and part of a successful business model.
It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
The child stars who emerged from Disney boot camp and dominated pop culture in the late '90s and '00s are not only still around but also have spawned successors who have proven even more indispensable to the business of music, movies, and television.
— Tom Junod
Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It's a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There's something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged.
— Tom Hollander
As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I'll play until I can't keep up with the kids any longer.
— Tom Heinsohn
And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.
— Tom Golisano
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
Every year that you enter this business and this game, the goal is the Super Bowl.
— Tom Coughlin
I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
— Tom Arnold
