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"Knowledge workers should be paid for quality rather than quantity of work."

-- Peter Drucker

"Knowledge workers should be paid for quality rather than quantity of work."

-- Peter Drucker

"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."

-- Peter Drucker

"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."

-- Peter Drucker

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."

-- Peter Drucker

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."

-- Peter Drucker

"Leadership is not rank, privileges, titles, or money. It is responsibility."

-- Peter Drucker

"Leadership is not rank, privileges, titles, or money. It is responsibility."

-- Peter Drucker

"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."

-- Peter Drucker

"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."

-- Peter Drucker

"The computer is a moron."

-- Peter Drucker

"The computer is a moron."

-- Peter Drucker

"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization."

-- Peter Drucker

"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization."

-- Peter Drucker

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."

-- Peter Drucker

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."

-- Peter Drucker

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

-- Peter Drucker

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

-- Peter Drucker

"The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work."

-- Peter Drucker

"The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work."

-- Peter Drucker

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

-- Peter Drucker

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

-- Peter Drucker

"Most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question."

-- Peter Drucker

"Most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question."

-- Peter Drucker

"Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems."

-- Peter Drucker

"Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems."

-- Peter Drucker

"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights."

-- Peter Drucker

"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights."

-- Peter Drucker

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

-- Peter Drucker

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

-- Peter Drucker

"Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation."

-- Peter Drucker

"Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation."

-- Peter Drucker

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it."

-- Peter Drucker

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it."

-- Peter Drucker

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

-- Peter Drucker

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

-- Peter Drucker

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."

-- Peter Drucker

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."

-- Peter Drucker

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product fits him and sells itself."

-- Peter Drucker

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product fits him and sells itself."

-- Peter Drucker

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

-- Peter Drucker

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

-- Peter Drucker

"People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete."

-- Peter Drucker

"People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete."

-- Peter Drucker

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

-- Peter Drucker

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship."

-- Peter Drucker

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship."

-- Peter Drucker