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One Quotes by Peter Drucker
- One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with…
- Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.…
- Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by…
- In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for…
- Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
- No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.
- One either meets or one works.
- Trees die from the topâ€. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve…
- An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
- It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
- The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the…
- Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
- One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not…
- 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…
- Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
- One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
- I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more…
- One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
- Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle