Peter Drucker Quotes

592 quotes · Management Consultant, Author

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Peter Drucker Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Motivated Determined Courageous 592 quotes · page 32 of 50

Peter Drucker

Management Consultant, Author

Philosophical

“[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.”

School Age Greek

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Peter Drucker

Management Consultant, Author

Sad

“Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.”

Ideas Listening Asking

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Motivated

“The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.”

Needs Creating

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Motivated

“Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.”

Resources Enterprise

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Sad

“Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.”

Energy Yesterday Evaluation

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Spiritual

“The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.”

Men Needs Spiritual

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Motivated

“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”

Country Tasks Management

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Motivated

“I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.”

People Ideas

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Sad

“There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.”

Wisdom Cat Income

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Motivated

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”

Done Vision Innovation

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Angry

“When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.”

People Heaven Rain

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Courageous

“They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.”

Believe Moving Mountain

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