Peter Drucker Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
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“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
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“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
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“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
-- Peter DruckerSource : "Prison, revolution and reconciliation". Interview with Jonathan Steele, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.
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“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
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“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
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“More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.”
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“Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.”
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“The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.”
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“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
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“Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.”
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“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.”
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“We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.”
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“Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
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“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”
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“Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.”
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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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“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
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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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“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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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
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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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“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.”
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“The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it's selling.”
-- Peter Drucker
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