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Business Quotes by Peter Drucker
- The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
- The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is…
- Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
- Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.…
- Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to…
- The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make…
- Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All…
- Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the…
- (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it…
- The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability…
- Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
- Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
- ..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…
- Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
- 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…
- 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…
- More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
- There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
- Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and…
- Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise
- There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.
More Business Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash