Peter Drucker Quotes
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
Quotes to Explore
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
Barton Gellman
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
Zhang Zhidong
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
Yossi Sarid
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I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.
Mario Testino
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
Naomi Klein
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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I think many times news organizations, whether it's for lack of resources or something else, cover the headlines and don't follow up, even though the story continues for the people living there - they can't leave. I think it's critical that they do these follow-up stories to realize that there is still suffering, and the need is dire.
Carol Guzy
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
Malcolm de Chazal
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
