Peter Drucker Short Quotes

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Do what you do best and outsource the rest.

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Management has authority only as long as it performs.

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It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

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One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

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Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

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The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

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The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

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Rank does not confer privileges; it entails responsibilities.

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There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.

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Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

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Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

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One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

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We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

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People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

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Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

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The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

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The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

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To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

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Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

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The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

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Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

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Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

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Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

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The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

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