#tom

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. ↗

— Ross Perot

#cobweb #customers #deals #doing #engineering

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it. ↗

— Collin C. Peterson

#bottom #continue #get #hope #i

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz. ↗

— Tom Peters

#become #boundaries #brand #brands #buzz

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

#behind #blue-collar #change #computer #driving

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#big #bottom #down #dramatically #fall

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#going #illusion #like #real #reality

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#circumstance #consistency #custom #detail #found

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#does #fill #his #phantoms #remains

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#advantage #automatically #best #called #divine

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. ↗

— Colin Powell

#better place #bottom #declare #down #eventually