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Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotes (341)

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Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.
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There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
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Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
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Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.
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Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.
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Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.
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Loafing is easy, but leisure is difficult.
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Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.
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Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.
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The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.
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Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.
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There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.
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If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
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Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.
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Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.
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The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
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Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
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The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron for logic is essentially stupid.
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The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as unearned income and capitalist, if not as sinful and wicked.
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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 no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.
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