Peter Drucker Quotes

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map.

We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process.