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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
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No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
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Effective people are not problem minded they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
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Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
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I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.
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Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.
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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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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results all the rest are 'costs'.
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Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.
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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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Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
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Ideas are cheap and abundant what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
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The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the global shopping center is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.
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Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
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As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
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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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No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
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Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.
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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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