Most discussions of decision making assu... | Peter Drucker

Mistake

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

- Peter Drucker

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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Peter Drucker

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

- Peter Drucker

Technology

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

- Peter Drucker

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

- Peter Drucker

Leadership Right

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

Customer

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

- Peter Drucker

Today Power

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

- Peter Drucker

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Mistake People

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

- Andre Norton

Mistake

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

- John Doolittle

Mistake Being

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

- Jurgen Klinsmann

Mistake Waiting

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

- Jim Sullivan

Mistake Right

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

- Sanford I. Weill

Mistake Man

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

- Daisy Bates