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Posted by Judith Ellis at April 10, 2008 11:14 AM

I thank you for this novelty. Tom’s quotes are extremely appreciated. My gratitude.

Posted by Andres Agostini at April 10, 2008 3:47 PM

We're glad you like the new way for us to keep in touch! Thank you.

Addendum 04.11.08: Daily Quote number 2 went to 259 recipients! Yay!

Posted by cathy mosca at April 10, 2008 7:36 PM

Totally cool. Thank you.
P.S. There will eventually be a PDF "collection" of these, yes?! Maybe updated quarterly, yes?!

Posted by Sally Witzky at April 11, 2008 3:25 PM

Great stuff Tom! Quotes are a powerful depiction of life. Here's one that I share with you. "Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul". Sir J. Stephen

Posted by Kaplan Mobray, Author 10Ks of Personal Branding at April 12, 2008 8:11 AM

Loved today's quote on mistakes. This quote, like the many others I have read in TP's books, is more than merely contrarian or counterintuitive; it is essence of who we are. There is a seemingly difference here in approach that distinguishes, namely being contrarian for its very sake and being such to define who we really are as opposed to what we are expected to be...perfect.

Such quotes make Brand Yous the focus of work that matters. This quote bravely puts the focus of work that matters where it where it should be...in talent, where imperfections and errors inherently lie. The quote speaks to allowing prototyping which includes failure. What comes through if we put aside our fear of failure will be of great benefit to all.

Brand Yours, great curiousity seekers, are the bedrock of business. This makes talent, not necessarily every employee, indispensible. Allow yourself to fail. None others can make mistakes and none others can create and innovate to make life and work that matters globally. Life is good, mistakes and all. Along with mistakes, a healthy amount of humility is needed.

Cathy...might it be a good idea to have a daily space here for our reading, our thoughts, on TP's quotes? Along with misreadings sometimes comes great reading. It may be good to see what others think about the daily quote as well. It may also inspire others to sign up. Might they wonder what the discussions are refering to?

This is merely an idea, which may or maynot be uesful. What I do know is that TP's quotes and reading often light a fire within me. I've only gotten two daily quotes in my in box so far and I'm well ablaze!

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 14, 2008 7:11 AM

This is great stuff. Anyone can use it. I find inspiration from your quotes, and try to apply the concept. Simple. Powerful. You know what would be great, at least from me, is a sharing of best practices. I know, a cliche, but I live-to-learn.

Posted by JoJo Schneckenaichner at April 14, 2008 7:31 PM

Sorry for the numerous quotes...my button got stuck. Or maybe user-interface issues...me.

Posted by JoJo Schneckenaichner at April 14, 2008 7:35 PM

These quotes are actionable indeed in bite size portions to build upon daily.

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 15, 2008 6:10 AM

jojo, no problem. i deleted the extra comments. (i know the server is sometimes slow to to take up the comments.)

Posted by erik hansen at April 15, 2008 8:14 AM

So the guy who wrote in 2004 that blogging was soooooo important is now reduced to supplying email quotes from past work because he is too busy globe-trotting (to horror-show locations like Dubai, but then he doesn't leave the Four Seasons, so doesn't see the real country) for $45K a pop to blog more than once or twice a month. I will never darken this electronic door again. Bye.

Posted by RiddleMeThis at April 15, 2008 8:36 AM

RiddlesMeThis' comment seems vaguely familiar from another post. I understand the sentiment, but detest the whinning, slight hint of envy, and expectation of another. Get over it! Here's a quote from said familiar post: we will miss you.

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 15, 2008 10:48 AM

Thank you to you Cathy Mosca for being so thoughtful in compiling and making available Tom’s illuminating words of wisdom. Thanks, too, for your overall support to www.TomPeters.com+. My gratitude to Ellis for her energy and activism and illuminating contributions.

Tom put together this UNIQUE CATHEDRAL and we are having fun, thanks to his gracious and Nobel spirit and cleverness. He gave us a great opportunity. We need to acknowledge everyone’s contribution to the betterment of life at work and at home at large. Thanks Tom. What a gift tendered! We will always remember! Here, one must compete with his/her self. Through the process, MASS COLLABORATION (a la wiki), to disseminate further the ideas of the totality of people related to this noted blog.

Quotes are extremely important to me. There was once a European King who said, “…the size of your Universe equates to the size of your vocabulary….” I have been following up Mr. Peters’ quotations since I first bought In Search of Excellence. I capture his quotations in every book like “The Passion of Excellence.” These two books have so much present validity, its content seems ageless.

I also got the revolution of the “Re-Imagine” book. I felt in advantage to see such a beautiful book, a splendid piece of fine arts, overwhelmed with lucid content, unique differedness, useful and unconventional wisdom to get through profession and life well. I did subscribe to the service and keep it very sacrosantly.

It’s not a mystery that I love words. I am, too, into idea dissemination. Phrases and what I call “situational phrases,” I like even more. There is a great deal of wisdom that encapsulates a tribute to words, actions, and reflections as well as to the world redefinition/re-conceptualization.

Sir Winston Churchill, statesman #1 of my preference, wrote as if everything were quotable. So did Oscar Wilde. When, as a child, so the motion picture “The Dorian Gray Portrait,” I couldn’t avoided taking notes and notes and notes.

The first time Wilde went to the USA, he was asked by Immigration/Customs, “Do you have anything to declare,” Wilde immediately responded, “nothing but my intelligence.” Quite a superb one incidentally. He was extremely bright beyond any dispute.

Churchill, through his writings, that compete in quality and volume with those of Dickens, always recommended one read and harness many quotations. Learning them, by the way and as per Churchill, “can make you wiser.” Then, getting comfortable in The Last Lion, he said that an American of New York taught him the trick of harnessing the quotations.

Because Churchill was a genius, in Century 20, as a true statesman. He was a genius in many fields, including his super-communication, which could turn the “impossibles” into actual “viables”. He was indeed heavy into mind expansion. It does remind me of my father and my current supervisor.

Through oral communication he captured milestones. Through written communication he went even beyond.

You see, to Churchill and to many luminaries like Sir Francis Bacon, who where “Type A Primma Donnas,” words and phrases were ‘actions to be’ and mostly ‘actions to win’ and that aided the wining of the WWII. Bacon is a genius that I admire limitlessly.

I have a little hobby that it’s a bit costly. I buy a lot of quotation dictionaries. Although, not as many as I would like. Fortunately, the Internet today offers you a great deal of materiel. I give away some through my writings and blogs, since those are an asset that belongs to humankind ALL.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, read in English (my case) has numerous unbelievable quotations to open up one’s mind into RADIANT LIGHT, process through lateral, radiant thinking plus.

Some people think quotation is inexpensive and useless theory. See this one by Einstein, “…I do not know of anything more practical than theory….”

Churchill was a Genius. He was not telling about it anyone. He was self-driven and he kind of attaches a DYNAMO to the “driving forces” that DROVE his great self. A true luminary to “fire” an opaque discussion even from his passing-away point.

But Churchill wanted to know more and more words, phrases, quotations, regardless of the place were the came from/got originated. He bestowed “sense/purpose of living his life” through re-educating and re-shaping his mind again and again in real time until the last exhalation.

The West owes him a great deal. So does the East, when you place this statement on the macro perspective. Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, being just a candidate to occupy the 10 of Downing Street, was asked a question by the journalists before the elections reassured officially his definitive winning. Journalists asked, “Mr. Disraeli, in case you finally win, What will be your fist government action?” The statesman replied, “…sent my best friend to Sydney…”

In SHOCK, the journalist re-questioned, “…to Sydney, What for?...Disraeli, “…so that they tell me what I and my government look like from the antipodes [Australasia]…”

The Italian descent Corsican by the name Napoleon Bonaparte, although very damaging to most of Europe, obliges you to get out his thinking some pieces of ruthless wisdom for one’s personal, professional, and entrepreneurial success.

Do you remember when Bobby Kennedy ask President John Kennedy to reply the incendiary telegram from Krusheff not making acknowledgment on any negative statements, and just concentrating on the items that could be turned into a potential solution to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and the world over the Cuban Missile Crisis?

I believed that Napoleon was such a giant, although with all its grave transgression to human rights, that his military doctrines are the genesis—to a great extent—to the U.S. Army’s doctrines. He spoke French poorly since his mother tongue was Italian. He did speak Latin. Napoleon told the French people that if they don’t get SCIENCE and ENGLISH in the knowledge-based portfolio, they are not to be productive to their own selves AT ALL.

To get in touch with Napoleon writings and quotations is a luxury, since he considered anti-Machiavelli to use his fist to write out his heart and mind. Authors into Napoleon have had to go to great lengths to get little pieces of paragraphs to put them together accurately and orderly.

The most conspicuous Napoleon researchers are among the noted military establishment of the U.S. It’s a luxury to get to know the “good [thinking] deeds” of this guy and leave to historians the judgment of the evil deeds.

Napoleon, as Churchill, granted ‘a sine qua non’ condition to the supremacy of knowledge and specially that KNOWLEDGE DISTILLING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE.

Most everyone would like to increase the quality and quantity of their “deep smarts.” QUOTATIONS/QUOTES are an instrumental key, especially now when one must feel comfortable with anarchy, chaos (and the order from it stemming), and other phenomena. It is absolutely instrumental.

Prime historian and philosophers make certain to tell you that in the world that are time that In the-making history grant calm times. But it also offers you agitated times. There was the wise Chinese philosopher, gathered with his disciples. And told them, “…try not to live in interesting times…” Esteemed colleagues were living INTERESTING TIMES plague with UP-SIDE RISKS and DOWN-SIDE RISKS. For a researcher and historian, among others, these are daring times but also extremely interesting for those WATCHING with a prepared mind (Pasteur).

Clearly, if you capture QUOTES from an extremely experienced Management/Business person as Tom and others such as Science Nobel Prize recipients and Leonardo and Newton and Brunelescchi and Shakespeare and Dickens and Bacon and Disraeli and Churchill and Einstein and Feynman, the better.

Out of the optimum, the most difficult quotes by a luminary are the top best even if, at the first reading, one doesn’t get the message. Get the message out of it. Get the message hidden between lines. Try to understand the setting and context whether those quotes were formulates. Try to guess the color, the gray colors (various degrees), the personality, the gender, out of whom it originated to whom where designated, in what historic epoch, in what year season. That is, if one would like to get serious about LEARNING HOW TO BE A GENIUS OUT OF CREATIVE, WISE QUOTES.

In line with the previous paragraph, I might say the following. There are quotes that enlighten you with their wisdom. There are also quote who expand you mind in times that the DRIVING FORCES, ARE OF BRUTE FORCE AND ROGUE-LY SUBTLE, under the watch of true Monarch, namely RUTHLESS KNOWLEDGE. We need and we will need even more MIND EXPANSION to utmost, a word that gets more complex and armored from yoctosecond to yoctosecond (one septillionth (10-24) of a second). Time to get ROCK & ROLL teleporting at light speed.

Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at April 19, 2008 5:06 PM

(ENHANCED)

Thank you to you Cathy Mosca for being so
thoughtful in compiling and making available Tom’s illuminating words of wisdom. Thanks, too, for your overall support to www.TomPeters.com+. My gratitude to Ellis for her energy and activism and illuminating contributions.

Tom put together this UNIQUE CATHEDRAL and we are having fun, thanks to his gracious and Nobel spirit and cleverness. He gave us a great opportunity. We need to acknowledge everyone’s contribution to the betterment of life at work and at home at large.

Thanks Tom. What a gift tendered! We will always remember! Here, one must compete with his/her self. Through the process, MASS COLLABORATION (a la wiki), to disseminate further the ideas of the totality of people related to this noted blog.
Quotes are extremely important to me.

There was once a European King who said, “…the size of your Universe equates to the size of your vocabulary….” I have been following up Mr. Peters’ quotations since I first bought In Search of Excellence. I capture his quotations in every book like “The Passion of Excellence.” These two books have so much present validity, its content seems ageless.

I also got the revolution of the “Re-Imagine” book. I felt in advantage to see such a beautiful book, a splendid piece of fine arts, overwhelmed with lucid content, unique differedness, useful and unconventional wisdom to get through profession and life well.

I did subscribe to the service and keep it very sacrosantly.

It’s not a mystery that I love words. I am, too, into idea dissemination. Phrases and what I call “situational phrases,” I like even more. There is a great deal of wisdom that encapsulates a tribute to words, actions, and reflections as well as to the world redefinition/re-conceptualization.
Sir Winston Churchill, statesman #1 of my preference, wrote as if everything were quotable.

So did Oscar Wilde. When, as a child, so the motion picture “The Dorian Gray Portrait,” I couldn’t avoided taking notes and notes and notes.
The first time Wilde went to the USA, he was asked by Immigration/Customs, “Do you have anything to declare,” Wilde immediately responded, “nothing but my intelligence.” Quite a superb one incidentally. He was extremely bright beyond any dispute.

Churchill, through his writings, that compete in quality and volume with those of Dickens, always recommended one read and harness many quotations. Learning them, by the way and as per Churchill, “can make you wiser.” Then, getting comfortable in The Last Lion, he said that an American of New York taught him the trick of harnessing the quotations.

Because Churchill was a genius, in Century 20, as a true statesman. He was a genius in many fields, including his super-communication, which could turn the “impossibles” into actual “viables”. He was indeed heavy into mind expansion. It does remind me of my father and my current supervisor.

Through oral communication he captured milestones. Through written communication he went even beyond.
You see, to Churchill and to many luminaries like Sir Francis Bacon, who where “Type A Primma Donnas,” words and phrases were ‘actions to be’ and mostly ‘actions to win’ and that aided the wining of the WWII. Bacon is a genius that I admire limitlessly.

I have a little hobby that it’s a bit costly. I buy a lot of quotation dictionaries. Although, not as many as I would like. Fortunately, the Internet today offers you a great deal of materiel. I give away some through my writings and blogs, since those are an asset that belongs to humankind ALL.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, read in English (my case) has numerous unbelievable quotations to open up one’s mind into RADIANT LIGHT, process through lateral, radiant thinking plus.

Some people think quotation is inexpensive and useless theory. See this one by Einstein, “…I do not know of anything more practical than theory….”
Churchill was a Genius. He was not telling about it anyone. He was self-driven and he kind of attaches a DYNAMO to the “driving forces” that DROVE his great self. A true luminary to “fire” an opaque discussion even from his passing-away point.

But Churchill wanted to know more and more words, phrases, quotations, regardless of the place were they came from/got originated. He bestowed “sense/purpose of living to his life” through re-educating and re-shaping his mind again and again in real time until the last exhalation.

The West owes him a great deal. So does the East, when you place this statement on the macro perspective. Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, being just a candidate to occupy the 10 of Downing Street, was asked a question by the journalists before the elections reassured officially his definitive winning.

Journalists asked, “Mr. Disraeli, in case you finally win, What will be your fist government action?” The statesman replied, “…sent my best friend to Sydney…”

In SHOCK, the journalist re-questioned, “…to Sydney, What for?...Disraeli, “…so that they tell me what I and my government look like from the antipodes [Australasia]…”

The Italian descent Corsican by the name Napoleon Bonaparte, although very damaging to most of Europe, obliges you to get out his thinking some pieces of ruthless wisdom for one’s personal, professional, and entrepreneurial success.

Do you remember when Bobby Kennedy ask President John Kennedy to reply the incendiary telegram from Krusheff not making acknowledgment on any negative statements, and just concentrating on the items that could be turned into a potential solution to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and the world over the Cuban Missile Crisis?

I believed that Napoleon was such a giant, although with all its grave transgression to human rights, that his military doctrines are the genesis—to a great extent—of the U.S. Army’s doctrines today. He spoke French poorly since his mother tongue was Italian. He did speak Latin. Napoleon told the French people that if they don’t get SCIENCE and ENGLISH in the knowledge-based portfolio, they are not to be productive to their own selves AT ALL.

To get in touch with Napoleon writings and quotations is a luxury, since he considered anti-Machiavelli to use his fist to write out his heart and mind. Authors into Napoleon have had to go to great lengths to get little pieces of paragraphs to put them together accurately and orderly.

The most conspicuous Napoleon researchers are among the noted military establishment of the U.S. It’s a luxury to get to know the “good [thinking] deeds” of this guy and leave to historians the judgment of the evil deeds.

Napoleon, as Churchill, granted ‘a sine qua non’ condition to the supremacy of knowledge and specially that KNOWLEDGE DISTILLING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE.

Most everyone would like to increase the quality and quantity of their “deep smarts.” QUOTATIONS/QUOTES are an instrumental key, especially now when one must feel comfortable with anarchy, chaos (and the order from it stemming), and other phenomena. It is absolutely instrumental.

Prime historians and philosophers make certain to tell you that in the world there are times that in-the-making history grants calm times. But it also offers you agitated times. There was the wise Chinese philosopher, gathered with his disciples. And told them, “…try not to live in interesting times…” Esteemed colleagues were living INTERESTING TIMES plagued with UP-SIDE RISKS and DOWN-SIDE RISKS.

For a researcher and historian, among others, these are daring times but also extremely interesting for those WATCHING with a prepared mind (Pasteur).

Clearly, if you capture QUOTES from an extremely experienced Management/Business person as Tom and others such as Science Nobel Prize recipients and Leonardo and Newton and Brunelescchi and Shakespeare and Dickens and Bacon and Disraeli and Churchill and Einstein and Feynman, the better.

Out of the optimum, the most difficult quotes by a luminary are the top best even if, at the first reading, one doesn’t get the message. Get the message out of it. Get the message hidden between lines. Try to understand the setting and context whether those quotes were formulated.

Try to guess the color, the gray colors (various degrees), the personality, the gender, out of whom it originated to whom where designated, in what historic epoch, in what year season. That is, if one would like to get serious about LEARNING HOW TO BE A GENIUS OUT OF CREATIVE, WISE QUOTES.
In line with the previous paragraph, I might say the following.

There are quotes that enlighten you with their wisdom. There are also quote who expand you mind in times that the DRIVING FORCES, ARE OF BRUTE FORCE AND ROGUE-LY SUBTLE, under the watch of a true Monarch, namely RUTHLESS KNOWLEDGE.

We need and we will need even more MIND EXPANSION to utmost, a word that gets more complex and armored from yoctosecond to yoctosecond (one septillionth (10-24) of a second). Time to get ROCK & ROLL teleported at light speed.

Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at April 19, 2008 5:18 PM

Andy…thanks for a wonderful treatise on words, science and genius. I love the cross-disciplinary approach.

buy viagra no prescription australia I also love this: “to Churchill and to many luminaries like Sir Francis Bacon, who where ‘Type A Prima Donnas,’ words and phrases were ‘actions to be’ and mostly ‘actions to win’ and that aided the wining of the WWII.”

While I too am a lover of quotes and look at them as actionable forces, words in and of themselves will never be enough to move things forward, whether internal or external. Words are the starting point of change; they are the starting point of movement. Words form our very existence. Words have great power if acted upon.

Your non-judgment of good and evil deeds is appreciated. But I also believe that there is a kind of righteous judgment (not self-righteous judgment) necessary. I, nonetheless, appreciate the thought. Good and evil deeds are indeed distinguishable, but often motives are not. The complexity of being is forever present. While our actions are the best indicators of our thoughts, initially formed by our words, we do not always do what is in our hearts.

The Apostle Paul addressed the matter of the complexity of being. “When I would do good," he said, “evil is always present.” This is not to condone evil deeds by ANY means or to hold such doers blameless. It is, however, to give insight on the complexities of being; it is to give insight on the power of words and choice of actions.

May goodness overcome evil continuously; this is our choice.

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 19, 2008 8:57 PM

Andy...wonderful thoughts here! Keep the faith! Life is beautiful.

I adore Mozart! And Monk (as in Thelonious) too!

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 20, 2008 8:55 AM

Faith, let me define, is an expected hope, the kind that doesn't disappoint. My brother, Rob, asks, "Where is your faith?" "Faith", he continues, "is the proof." Keep the faith!

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 20, 2008 9:02 AM

Regarding peace, I offer Romans 12:21: "Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good." Goodness has a way of disarming and thus penetrating. This is a great leadership tenet.

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 20, 2008 9:22 AM

Goodness also has a way of healing ourselves, our own bad faith and our very bodies, preparing us for brighter days thereafter.

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 20, 2008 9:27 AM