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Time Quotes by Peter Drucker
- 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 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…
- 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.
- Time is the scarcest resource....
- 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…
- If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!
- More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
- The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
- To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and…
- Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may…
- 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.
- One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
- We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I…
- The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
- Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
- Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There…
- Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
- Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for…
- Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But…
- The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- 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 love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani