Peter Drucker Quotes

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• No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst…
• Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification…
• A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of…
• Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.
• To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions,…
• The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong…
• Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.
• The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
• Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
• The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers
• The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees
• More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
• Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.
• The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
• The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
• Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
• People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'
• The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it's selling.
• There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
• Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto…

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