Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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Peter Drucker
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About Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and contributed to the popularization of the concepts known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the champion of management as a serious discipline".
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Few 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 '…
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The computer is a moron.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.