Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipli….
Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust..
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irr….
The best way to predict the future is to create it..
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent.
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems..
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it..
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable..
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified,….
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears..
No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a ….
The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focuse….
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man unde….
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence..
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities..
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..
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself..
If you want to predict the future create it..
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different se….
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything..
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past..