The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
PETER DRUCKERA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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By 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.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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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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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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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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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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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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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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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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