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 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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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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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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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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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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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