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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowle...  
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer...  
Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the ...  
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.   Business
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. T...  
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; lead...  
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.  
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right thi...  
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that sti...  
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of cle...  
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflecti...  
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act tha...  
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or...  
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety per...  
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things...  
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought fo...  
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for pe...   Business
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few q...  
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.  
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen t...  
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a ye...  
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into...  
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibilit...  
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for...  
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet...  
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well th...  
The best way to predict the future is to create it.  
The computer is a moron.   Computers
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and explo...  
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't 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 o...  
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.  
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.   Business
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not...  
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else ca...   Business
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advan...  
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country ro...  
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no...  
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industri...  
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping ...  
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.   Education