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Wise Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
- Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
- The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
- The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge…
- The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out…
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