Peter Drucker Quotes

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the 'hotel services' by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

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• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Party
  • Health
  • Care

• I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Model
  • Illusion

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Law
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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Health
  • Depressed

• I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Surprise
  • Risks

• Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moment

• As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • People
  • Family
  • Period

• Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Free

• I've always known that I wanted to sing, and I wanted to dance, and I wanted to act.

  

  Alex Newell
  • Dance

• Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

  

  Adora Svitak
  • America
  • Lost
  • Learning

• One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the 'hotel services' by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • People
  • Health