Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker Quote

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- Peter Drucker Quote

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
- Peter Drucker Quote

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
- Peter Drucker Quote

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
- Peter Drucker Quote

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker Quote

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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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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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
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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.
- Peter Drucker Quote