Tom Peters

"Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas."

"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything."

"Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules."

"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."

"Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at."

"Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!"

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