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Quotes from Peter Drucker

The fault is in the system and not in the men.
- Peter Drucker
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
- Peter Drucker
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
- Peter Drucker
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
- Peter Drucker
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
- Peter Drucker
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
- Peter Drucker
Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.
- Peter Drucker
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
- Peter Drucker
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
- Peter Drucker
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Peter Drucker
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
- Peter Drucker