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Things Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
- The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
- 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…
- It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
- The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
- The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and…
- Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?
- Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes.…
- Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things…
- The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
- Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
- The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
- No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings…
- Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
- It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
- If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
- There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.
- The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a…
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon