Tom Peters

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Barack Obama is crazy sexy.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.