Peter Drucker Quotes

There is a definite trend in Italy and Germany to eliminate profit participation and the ownership rights of nonmanaging partners and shareholders.

Peter Drucker

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• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Caring
  • Loving

• It's about working when nobody's watching.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Working
  • Nobody
  • Watching

• Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growth
  • Own

• I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Past
  • Myself

• Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Beautiful
  • Party
  • Thought

• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Intellectual

• Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Look

• I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Learned
  • Used
  • Maniacal

• Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mother

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Power
  • Faith

• We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Die

• Imma, blunt blowin, polo draws showin, I don't give a lovely mothafuck ass nigga.

  

  Lil Wayne

• Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Money
  • Wall

• And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

  

  Buddy Rich

• Never ask a bore a question.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Question

• I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Mysterious
  • Secrecy

• A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

  

  Charles Inglis
  • War
  • Failure

• This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

  

  Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Work
  • Night

• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Enough
  • Situation
  • Terrorist

• I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Moving
  • Look
  • Looking

• There is a definite trend in Italy and Germany to eliminate profit participation and the ownership rights of nonmanaging partners and shareholders.

  

  Peter Drucker