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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
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Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
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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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Increasingly, politics is not about who gets what, when, how but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about the right to life...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
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The corporation is the master, the employee is the servant. Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.
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True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, What do we want to sell? It asks, What does the customer want to buy?
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The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
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It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
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We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
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A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.
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Loafing is easy, but leisure is difficult.
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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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We always remember best the irrelevant.
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(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
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The most effective way to manage change is to create it.
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Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
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