"What can I contribute that will significantly..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
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“True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"”
“Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.”
“There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.”
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“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.”
“I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.”
“Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.”
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“I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
“The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.”
“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”