The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Quote by Peter Drucker
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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
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Peter Drucker Quotes
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Teaching 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.
- Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
- The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- The computer is a moron.
- No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
- Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.