One liners by my mentor PF.Drucker..

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F. Drucker

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter F. Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter F. Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter F. Drucker

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter F. Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter F. Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter F. Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter F. Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Peter F. Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter F. Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
Peter F. Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter F. Drucker

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter F. Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter F. Drucker

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
Peter F. Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Peter F. Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter F. Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
Peter F. Drucker

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter F. Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter F. Drucker

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter F. Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter F. Drucker

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter F. Drucker

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Peter F. Drucker

Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Peter F. Drucker

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

"A SUCCESSFUL MAN IS ONE WHO CAN LAY A FIRM FOUNDATION WITH THE BRICKS OTHERS HAVE THROWN AT HIM."