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Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotes (341)

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There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the rich and on the fat cats. But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care that's an intention, not an objective.
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It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
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To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
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An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.
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If you want to predict the future create it.
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If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
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Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
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[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word school - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning leisure.
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Nobody can predict the future the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
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Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
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Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
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The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
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We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
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The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things.
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There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.
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Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.
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One either meets or one works.
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Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.
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Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
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Change is the norm unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
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What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
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The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
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