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Time Quotes by Peter Drucker

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Peter Drucker urges us to stay rooted in the present, because the future can only be built, not guessed. He treats time as the universal condition that all work shares, and he separates the act of working from the act of meeting. He also stresses that innovation belongs to the present moment.

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The bеѕt wау tо predict уоur future іѕ tо create it.

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You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.

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The real achiever do one thing at a time.

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Time is the scarcest resource…

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If you want to predict the future create it.

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Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

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Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

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Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

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Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

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A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

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Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

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The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

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"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the…

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We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half…

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The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

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The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person…

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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing…

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Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can…

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The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become…

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Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a…

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Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of…

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I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.…

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most…

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Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the…

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In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that…

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The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly…

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Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will…

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To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have…

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the…

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If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

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If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

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If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.

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One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

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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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Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

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Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

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Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

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The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

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Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.