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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

Business
2

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

Peter Drucker

Concentration
3

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Peter Drucker

Decisions
4

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Peter Drucker

Education
5

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Peter Drucker

Efficiency
6

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Peter Drucker

Work
7

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Peter Drucker

Time and Time Management
8

INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Peter Drucker

Innovation
9

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge
10

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

Leaders and Leadership
11

Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management
12

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Leaders and Leadership
13

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter Drucker

Committees and Meetings
14

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Peter Drucker

Ask
15

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker

Goal
16

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Peter Drucker

Time and Time Management
17

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Management
18

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Peter Drucker

Action
19

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Peter Drucker

Advertising
20

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

The future
21

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Peter Drucker

Mistakes
22

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Change
23

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Peter Drucker

Work
24

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

Peter Drucker

Communication
25

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

Peter Drucker

Change
26

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Peter Drucker

Management
27

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

Business
28

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Peter Drucker

Communication
29

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Peter Drucker

Right and Rightness
30

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter Drucker

Management
31

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

Mediocrity
32

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Peter Drucker

Time and Time Management
33

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge
34

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Peter Drucker

Commitment
35

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Peter Drucker

Time and Time Management
36

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

Peter Drucker

Motivation
37

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.

Peter Drucker

Change
38

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.

Peter Drucker

Will and Will Power
39

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peter Drucker

Education

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

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

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

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.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

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

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.

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.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.