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Peter Drucker - From the Activity category:
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Business category:
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Commerce category:
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Commitment category:
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Communication category:
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Contemplation category:
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Destiny category:
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Efficiency category:
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Efficiency category:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Efficiency category:
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Evolution category:
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Expectation category:
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Future category:
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Importance category:
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Innovation category:
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Leadership category:
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Leadership category:
Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Motivation category:
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Obsession category:
Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Planning category:
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Power category:
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Questions category:
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Risk category:
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Risk category:
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who take risks, generally make about two big mistakes a year. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Searching category:
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Teaching category:
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Teaching category:
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Technology category:
The computer is a moron. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Time category:
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Time category:
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. (Peter Drucker)
Peter Drucker - From the Understanding category:
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. (Peter Drucker)
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