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Firsts Quotes by Peter Drucker
- In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important…
- (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it…
- It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
- 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 is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
- If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
- Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they…
- As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
- The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
- We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those…
- Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those…
- Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour