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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Economist
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Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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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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There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
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The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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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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Strong people have strong weaknesses.
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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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To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon.
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Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.
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Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, Let's do a little bit of everything.
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The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
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In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
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Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
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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 fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
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