Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
Peter DruckerSalvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.
Peter DruckerDo not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
Peter DruckerMeetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.
Peter DruckerExecutives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker