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Peter F. Drucker Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Peter F. Drucker

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

Related topics: Motivational Business Values Leadership

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

Doing Quotes and Sayings

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho

A inspired life lives not in the DOing, but in the BEing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A.A. Milne

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu

If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house
with the conscious design of doing me good,
I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Mother Teresa

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they could and should do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always had a love for poetry,
and when I got signed to a record label I thought,
"How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry."
- Jewel

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter

The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi

We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie