Peter Drucker Quotes

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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 supply will not…
• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read…
• The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you…
• The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation…
• If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a…
• A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That…
• Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
• The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL…
• You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
• In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
• I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
• If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!
• Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.
• Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
• Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights…
• Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
• Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
• Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
• Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
• It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

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