#eat

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. ↗

— Tom Peters

#bureaucratic #companies #environments #excellent #exciting

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. ↗

— Tom Peters

#change #course #enough #even #great

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. ↗

— Tom Peters

#customers #discovered #employees #formula #guests

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ↗

— Tom Peters

#attention #deal #great #great deal #paying

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. ↗

— Tom Peters

#brands #consumer #creates #effect #halo

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles. ↗

— William Petersen

#corporate #geek #gibson #go #hollywood

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone. ↗

— William Petersen

#anything #closest #except #getting #grissom

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. ↗

— William Petersen

#audience #fifty #fifty percent #give #i

We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater! ↗

— William Petersen

#episode #good #knew #magnitude #making

Man has no greater enemy than himself. ↗

— Petrarch

#greater #himself #man #than