Peter Drucker
Austria
19 Nov 1909 // 11 Nov 2005
Management Consultant / Educator / Author
19 Nov 1909 // 11 Nov 2005
Management Consultant / Educator / Author
The great majority of executives tend to focus downward. They are occupied with efforts rather than with results. The effective executive focuses on contribution. He looks outward towards goals.
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
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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