One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
PETER DRUCKERLike so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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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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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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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 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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