The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Votes: 22
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Votes: 11
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence. Votes: 0
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Votes: 0
Business is society's change agent. Votes: 0
The computer is a moron. Votes: 0
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute. Votes: 0
Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. Votes: 0
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again. Votes: 0
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. Votes: 0
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, Votes: 0
Decisions exist only in the present. Votes: 0
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Votes: 0
Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing. Votes: 0
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. Votes: 0
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas. Votes: 0
In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge Votes: 0
Knowledge applied is productivity. Votes: 0
Leaders grow; they are not made. Votes: 0
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise. Votes: 0
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Votes: 0
Leadership is more doing than dash. Votes: 0
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. Votes: 0
Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. Votes: 0
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success. Votes: 0
Profit is not a cause but a result- Votes: 0
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. Votes: 0
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires. Votes: 0
The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business. Votes: 0
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people. Votes: 0
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. Votes: 0
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. Votes: 0
There are no creeds in mathematics. Votes: 0
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. Votes: 0
Time is the scarcest resource.... Votes: 0
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention. Votes: 0
We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model . Votes: 0
What gets measured gets managed. Votes: 0
What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good. Votes: 0
What's measured improves Votes: 0
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. Votes: 0
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution. Votes: 0
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. Votes: 0
One either meets or one works. Votes: 0