"It's amazing how many things busy people..." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!”

“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”

“Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.”

“People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”

“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”

“You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.”

“The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.”

“Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.”

“Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.”