Peter Drucker

Austria
19 Nov 1909 // 11 Nov 2005
Management Consultant / Educator / Author

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons...timing is a most important element in the success of any effort, lb do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

The Effective Executive (1967)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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