Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off i….
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer..
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and co….
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a G….
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject know….
We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organi….
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course..
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem..
Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities..
Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on a….
Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION..
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To d….
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up..
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large..
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic..
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better..
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Market….
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast..
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation..
Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost..
There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost..