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

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

Peter Drucker
Work, Future, Entrepreneur

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

Peter Drucker
Work, Trying, Right Thing

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Peter Drucker
Education, Work, Men
Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.129, Transaction Publishers

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Peter Drucker
Wise, Business, Work
Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.15, Routledge

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

Peter Drucker
Work, Enough
Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.170, Routledge

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Peter Drucker
Work, Responsibility, Decision
Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.59, Harvard Business Review Press

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

Peter Drucker
Work, Learning, Knowledge
Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.40, Routledge

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

Peter Drucker
Business, Work, Mean
Peter F. Drucker (2014). “The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management”, p.65, Harper Collins

The computer is a moron.

Peter Drucker
Work, Technology, Intellectual

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Peter Drucker
Work, Yesterday, Society

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

Peter Drucker
Work, Greatness, Giving Money
"New Priorities" by Peter Drucker, www.context.org. Summer 1992.

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