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People 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.…
- 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…
- The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is…
- A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
- The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability…
- People learn the most when teaching others.
- The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
- 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…
- ..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 real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you…
- It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
- No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst…
- 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 fruit of your work grows on other people's trees
- People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'
- There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
- A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's…
- 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…
- Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
- The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
- 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.…
- It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.
- The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
- 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…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle