01c. 1957 ADPeople often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
03c. 1957 ADThe most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
04c. 1957 ADOne should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
07c. 1957 ADWherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
08c. 1957 ADMost of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
09c. 1957 ADThe entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
11c. 1957 ADTime is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
13c. 1957 ADThe new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
15c. 1957 ADFew companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'Peter Drucker / quote ↗
16c. 1957 ADPlans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
17c. 1957 ADCompany cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
18c. 1957 ADTeaching 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.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
19c. 1957 ADMy greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
20c. 1957 ADWe 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 / quote ↗
21c. 1957 ADManagement by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
22c. 1957 ADToday knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
23c. 1957 ADSuppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
24c. 1957 ADKnowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.Peter Drucker / quote ↗
