"Most of what we call management consists..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
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“The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.”
“No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.”
“When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.”
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“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.”
“If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.”
“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”
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“Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements.”
“The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?”