Peter Drucker Quotes

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

It offends me when people do useless work.

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.