Peter Drucker Quotes

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• The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
• The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
• The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
• Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
• An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
• It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
• The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the…
• Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
• Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
• Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
• Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
• Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.
• In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge
• Time is the scarcest resource....
• The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or…
• Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
• The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
• Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.
• Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay…
• No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings…

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