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.
PETER DRUCKERThe 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.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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The computer is a moron.
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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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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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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 first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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