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- Peter Drucker Quotes

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

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.
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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
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Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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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.
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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
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The computer is a moron.
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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
- Peter Drucker Quotes

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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