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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Pleasure
Margaret Drabble

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
Change
John W. Draper

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Change
William Drayton

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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
Effort
H. W. Dresses

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Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.
The future
Fritz R. S. Dressler

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Decision making is the specific executive task.
Decisions
Peter F. Drucker

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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Education
Peter F. Drucker

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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Leaders and Leadership
Peter F. Drucker

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Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
Committees and Meetings
Peter F. Drucker

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Action
Peter F. Drucker

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The future
Peter F. Drucker

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
Mistakes
Peter F. Drucker

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Change
Peter F. Drucker

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
Work
Peter F. Drucker

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Communication
Peter F. Drucker

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Change
Peter F. Drucker

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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Business
Peter F. Drucker

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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Communication
Peter F. Drucker

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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
Right and Rightness
Peter F. Drucker

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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Mediocrity
Peter F. Drucker

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
Time and Time Management
Peter F. Drucker

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Commitment
Peter F. Drucker

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun