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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker
Important, Jobs, Fellow
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 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker
Computers, Few, Though
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Nothing, Done, Useless
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Peter Drucker
Computers, Technology, Internet
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Peter Drucker
Treat, Fact, Accept
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter Drucker
Change, Work, Country
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker
Knowledge, Power, Today
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker
Work, Manager, Worker
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
Future, Different
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker
Business, Time, Nothing
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker
Action, Reflection, Quiet
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker
Business, Purpose, Create
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Peter Drucker
Leadership, Good, Decisions
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.
Peter Drucker
Trust, Power, Cannot
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Education, Subject, Obsolete
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
Work, Difficult, Making
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker
Together, Possible, Turn
The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker
Computers, Computer, Moron
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter Drucker
Nothing, Born, Certainty

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Nationality: American
Born: November 19, 1909
Died: November 11, 2005

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