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Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotes (341)

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Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
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Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.
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Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
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Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.
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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
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Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
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The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.
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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 the product.
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The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
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Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
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We can ill afford to have activities conducted as non-profit, that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.
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Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.
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As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.
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Decision making is the specific executive task.
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The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.
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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
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Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
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Knowledge applied is productivity.
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The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees
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Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.
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The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
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Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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