Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.

Peter Drucker · How to Be an Effective Executive, Nation's Business (1961)

The basic economic resource is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Peter Drucker · The source reads: “The basic economic resource—the "means of production" to use the economist's term—is no longer capital, nor natural resources (the economist's "land"), nor "labor." It is and will be knowledge.” · Post-Capitalist Society (1993)

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

Peter Drucker · Post-Capitalist Society (1993)

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker · Managing for Business Effectiveness (1963)

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The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

Phineas T. Barnum · The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself (1855)

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

The Bible · Proverbs 20:14

It is always better, except in the hierarchy of military discipline, to express opinions and wishes rather than to give orders.

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)

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“Leave enough time unscheduled; anyone in a decision-making position should, as a rule, schedule no more than half his time.”

“The basic economic resource is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.”

“Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.”

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

“The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.”

“It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.”

“It is always better, except in the hierarchy of military discipline, to express opinions and wishes rather than to give orders.”