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"People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs."

-- Peter Drucker

"People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs."

-- Peter Drucker

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make."

-- Peter Drucker

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make."

-- Peter Drucker

"The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question."

-- Peter Drucker

"The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question."

-- Peter Drucker

"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent."

-- Peter Drucker

"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent."

-- Peter Drucker

"There are no results inside the organization. All the results are outside."

-- Peter Drucker

"There are no results inside the organization. All the results are outside."

-- Peter Drucker

"Objectives are not fate; they are direction."

-- Peter Drucker

"Objectives are not fate; they are direction."

-- Peter Drucker

"The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action."

-- Peter Drucker

"The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action."

-- Peter Drucker

"Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to rethink the strategy, execution will continue to be disappointing."

-- Peter Drucker

"Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to rethink the strategy, execution will continue to be disappointing."

-- Peter Drucker

"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."

-- Peter Drucker

"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."

-- Peter Drucker

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

-- Peter Drucker

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management is about human beings."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management is about human beings."

-- Peter Drucker

"Communication is what the listener does."

-- Peter Drucker

"Communication is what the listener does."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure."

-- Peter Drucker

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."

-- Peter Drucker

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."

-- Peter Drucker

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

-- Peter Drucker

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

-- Peter Drucker

"There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all."

-- Peter Drucker

"There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all."

-- Peter Drucker

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

-- Peter Drucker

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

-- Peter Drucker

"The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths."

-- Peter Drucker

"The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths."

-- Peter Drucker

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

-- Peter Drucker

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

-- Peter Drucker

"The new realities rarely fit the old map."

-- Peter Drucker

"The new realities rarely fit the old map."

-- Peter Drucker

"The leaders who work most effectively never say ‘I.’ They say ‘we."

-- Peter Drucker

"The leaders who work most effectively never say ‘I.’ They say ‘we."

-- Peter Drucker

"An organization is only as good as the people it keeps."

-- Peter Drucker

"An organization is only as good as the people it keeps."

-- Peter Drucker

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

-- Peter Drucker

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

-- Peter Drucker

"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it."

-- Peter Drucker

"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it."

-- Peter Drucker