black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
PETER DRUCKER

Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER

Goodness Planning
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
PETER DRUCKER

Integrity Motivational Planning
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKER

Danger Result True Wrong
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
PETER DRUCKER

Goodness Man Philosophy
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
PETER DRUCKER

Human People Strength Weakness
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Difficult People
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
PETER DRUCKER

Excellence Improvement
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
PETER DRUCKER

Job Pay
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
PETER DRUCKER

Opportunity Problem Result
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Effectiveness must be learned.
PETER DRUCKER

Learning One Liner
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKER

Mistake People Risk
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
PETER DRUCKER

Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
PETER DRUCKER

Business Hands Man Oneself

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Peter Drucker Quotes