 Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. |
| We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. |
| When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. |
| There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. |
| Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. |
| Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. |
| The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. |
| Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. |
| Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. |
| Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. |
| Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. |
| A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. |
| The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. |
| The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. |
| No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. |
| Never mind your happiness; do your duty. |
| The best way to predict the future is to create it. |
| We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information. |
| Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. |
| The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Topics: Business |
