Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform..
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things..
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said..
Culture eats strategy for breakfast..
The bеѕt wау tо predict уоur future іѕ tо create it..
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed ….
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 unde….
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done..
Results is all that separates one company from another..
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all..
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all..
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it..
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state..
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs..
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous..
Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so..
Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do..
If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development..
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem..
[Management] has authority only as long as it performs..
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside..