"Adequacy is the enemy of excellence...." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.”

“We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.”

“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.”

“Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.”

“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”

“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”