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Best Management Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a…
- Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
- The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge…
- The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out…
- What's measured improves
- Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team…
- So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Manage yourself and then your company.
- Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.…
More Management Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- 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
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Nostalgia is a seductive liar. — George Ball
- Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are… — Amelia Barr
- The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of… — Dave Barry
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. — Ambrose Bierce
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. — David Bohm
- Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
- Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate