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Performance Quotes by Peter Drucker
- 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.…
- It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
- What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
- It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
- The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
- An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it…
- Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along togetherâ€; the test is performance not conformance.
- The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual…
- Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and…
- A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
- A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
- We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those…
- Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond…
- The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole…
- Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and…
More Performance Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and… — Charles Barkley
- I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and… — Marina Abramovic
- Insomnia is an increasing problem. I've become swayed that sleep disorders are conceivably the most unnoticed, ignored, underrated reason of health as… — Sean Sullivan
- Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail. — Ezra Taft Benson
- I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The… — David Sedaris