Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done..
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society..
Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right..
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span s….
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only th….
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather ….
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility..
People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have ….
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of th….
The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and divide….
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge..
What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. T….
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that….
The most effective way to manage change is to create it..
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level..
Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motiv….
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them..
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to….
Knowledge applied is productivity..
Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according….
The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be….