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 DRUCKERFollow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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The computer is a moron.
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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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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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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 best way to predict your future is to create 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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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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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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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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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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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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