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Institutions Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
- What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
- The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
- The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will…
- There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any…
- An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it…
- Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization…
- No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be…
- The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is…
More Institutions Quotes
- I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause… — Michael Chertoff
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson
- I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. — Thomas Jefferson
- To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson
- A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is… — Ronald Reagan