The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Quote by Peter Drucker
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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Peter Drucker Quotes
- 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.
- Suppliers 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.
- 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.
- The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
- The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- 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.
- A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Best Quotes
- I'm religiously opposed to religion.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
- Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
- The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
- Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
- Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.