Peter Drucker Quotes

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

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

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

We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

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.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

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

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

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