“Decision making is the specific executive task.”
“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.”
“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”
“Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.”
“Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.”
“Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.”
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.”
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
“The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.”
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
“The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.”
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.”
“The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.”
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed”
“Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
“The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.”