Peter Drucker Quotes

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

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• The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Prosperity

• It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Done
  • Movie

• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• Society becomes how we behave.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Society
  • Behave
  • How

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Important
  • Day

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Science
  • Body
  • Human

• If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Think
  • Him
  • Upset

• Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Knows

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

  

  Chesty Puller
  • Support
  • Marine

• I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Learn
  • Director
  • Early

• I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Fear
  • Style

• Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Different
  • Money

• There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Thinking
  • Space
  • Universe

• As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Understanding