Fortune Small Business Growth Conference - October 2008
The Top 10 Memorable quotes from Tom Peters

1. If you are not looking at a serious downturn, you are not a responsible leader.
2. What are you doing to take advantage of the biggest opportunity that we’ve had in two decades?
3. Do you have a major project in the works that you will fund, come hell or high water, that could be a post recession game changer?
4. If you are not spending 80% of your time on people-related issues, you shouldn’t be managing a dog pound.
5. Emotion is the Fast Lane to the brain.
6. My role is to remind you of the things that you already know, but in the midst of the chaos, seem to get lost.
7. “RIP Good Times.  Treat any dollar you spend as if it were your last…”  Sequoia Capital Ventures to a bunch of Entrepreneurs.
8. Internal organizational excellence = the Deepest ‘Blue Ocean’ strategy.
9. The Four Most Important words in any organization.  “What do you think?”  Dave Wheeler
10. You’re great at growth.  How are you at contraction?