Peter Drucker Quotes

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Business Leader | November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
And it doesn't seem to matter, and it doesn't seem right,
'Cause the will has brought no fortune, still I cry alone at night,
Don't you judge of my composure, 'cause I'm bothered every day,
And she didn't leave a letter, she just up and ran away.
Michael Jackson
It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth.
Maya Angelou
They were walking side by side, but each was alone.
Simone de Beauvoir
During our Zoom interview just before Labor Day. She notes that nothing less that winning each World Cup is the expectation placed on the USA’s women.
Mia Hamm
Narayana Murthy overcame many obstacles and demonstrated that is possible to create a world-class, values-driven company in India. Through his vision and leadership Murthy sparked a wave of innovation and entrepreneurship that changed the way we view ourselves and how the world views India.
Narayana Murthy
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir
It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.
Konosuke Matsushita
In each separate thing that you do consider the matters which come first, and those which follow after, and only then approach the thing itself.
Epictetus
[I]n a free society each individual has a responsibility towards the beliefs of his society—a responsibility on which all the rights and duties of citizenship are founded.
Peter Drucker
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Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer... We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.
Konosuke Matsushita
?I had for many years been a devout believer in Shushi says Nakaye Toju (1608-48), “when, by the mercy of Heaven, the collected works of Oyomei were brought for the first time to Japan. Had it not been for the aid of their teaching, my life would have been empty and barren.”
Tōju Nakae
I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
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In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.
Yoshida Kenkō
I hope you will find another one who is both beautiful and good to take my place and serve our parents and bring up my children, and then I shall die content.
Shen Fu