Example Quote by Peter Drucker

“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 incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very…” quote by Peter Drucker — Download Open image

“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 incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.”

Peter Drucker

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Example Focus Incompetence Mystery People Play Strength Trumpets Universal Violinist Wells

More by Peter Drucker

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate…

Peter Drucker

Image

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Peter Drucker

Image

Results is all that separates one company from another.

Peter Drucker

Image

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker”

Peter Drucker

Image

Our society has become an employee society.

Peter Drucker

Image

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

Peter Drucker

Image

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for…

Peter Drucker

Image

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Peter Drucker

Image

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"

Peter Drucker

Image

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to…

Peter Drucker

Image

When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.

Peter Drucker

Image

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Peter Drucker

Image

Explore all 603 Peter Drucker quotes

More Example quotes

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so…

Maria Sharapova

Image

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But…

Patrick Rothfuss

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

Michael Skolnik

Image

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

Guy Murchie

Image

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…

Seneca the Younger

Image

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should…

Mark Steyn

You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on…

Charlyne Yi

Image

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

Mike Bickle

Image

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,…

Edward Snowden