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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who had to worry about where his next meal was coming...
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
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Decision making is the specific executive task.
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Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
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As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint...
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non-world.
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is...
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two - and only two - basic functions: marketing and...
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.
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Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an...
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. ... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to...
Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid...
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
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Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you...
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present...
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.
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If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on human relations the group is probably too...