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Action Quotes by Peter Drucker
- One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with…
- The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
- No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
- Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
- Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.
- Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
- 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…
- The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
- In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius