Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKERBy themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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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 most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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What’s measured improves.
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1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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