Peter Drucker Quotes

I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

I’m not going anywhere. I’m not retiring. I’m not stopping. I’m just evolving.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

For this too is a very pleasant strand woven into the Cynic's pattern of life; he must needs be flogged like an ass, and while he is being flogged he must love the men who flog him, as though he were the father or brother of them all.

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Her voice makes you stop the car and peer skywards in wonder.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

If it does not grow, even though you are working hard, it is not because of unfavorable circumstances, bad timing, or bad luck. ... of the past has shown, it is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth.

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.

I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

There was no real progress,” she acknowledged in Pulse!. “I wasn’t making any money out of it, so I just stopped

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything. (p. 44)

That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer—even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety—is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.