“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
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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.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Peter Drucker
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
Change“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
Knowledge“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
Education“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
Good“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.”
Change“The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”
Computers“The computer is a moron.”
Computers“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
Leadership“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Knowledge“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
Leadership“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Work“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
Time“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
Knowledge“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
Business“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
Leadership“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.”
Teacher“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”
Happiness“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.”
Future“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
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