"One cannot hire a hand; the whole..." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.”

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

“It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.”

“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”