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Knowledge Quotes by Peter Drucker
- The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
- To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
- Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
- Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force.…
- Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in…
- Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
- In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge
- ..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 most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL…
- You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
- In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
- I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
- Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
- The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
- To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and…
- Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with…
- Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
- 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…
- 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…
- A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius