Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Peter Drucker
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The computer is a moron.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn__ said.
The only way to predict the future is to create it