Peter Drucker Quotes

Ideas are somewhat like babies-they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, 'This is a damn-fool idea.' Instead they ask, 'What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?'

Peter Drucker

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Proud
  • Army
  • Commissioned

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Design

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Internet

• Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Always
  • Dreams

• I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Person
  • Spiritually

• As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Everything

• The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Work
  • Should
  • Coffee

• The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Dying

• I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Time
  • Actors

• I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Bad

• If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Help
  • Support
  • Running

• I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

  

  Liane Balaban
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Respect

• Ideas are somewhat like babies-they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, 'This is a damn-fool idea.' Instead they ask, 'What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?'

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Promise