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Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotes (341)

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Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
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An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
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Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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Leadership is all about getting results.
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The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
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Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
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There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius it is character.
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.
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One does not manage people. The task is to lead people.
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Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
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We always remember best the irrelevant.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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One cannot hire a hand the whole man always comes with it.
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If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the bourgeois under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.
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We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.
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The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.
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The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.
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No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
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Profit is not a cause but a result-
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What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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