Peter Drucker quotes - page 10

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work. (Peter Drucker)
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. View quote
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Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity. View quote
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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. View quote
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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter. View quote
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Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. View quote
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The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. View quote
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You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable. View quote
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. View quote
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Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present. View quote
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Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care that's an intention, not an objective. (Peter Drucker)
Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas Do that, and you can't compromise. View quote
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Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data. View quote
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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant. View quote
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We always remember best the irrelevant. View quote
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As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. View quote
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Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. View quote
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Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. View quote
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Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. View quote
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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. View quote
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A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. (Peter Drucker)
Entrepreneurship is "risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing. View quote
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Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. View quote
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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. View quote
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. View quote
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