The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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Quotes by Peter Drucker
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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
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.
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.
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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