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Thinking Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
- Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.
- 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.
- Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification…
- The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it's selling.
- Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
- Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you…
- Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they…
- The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I."…
- You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello