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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.


Peter Abelard

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PETER DRUCKER There are no creeds in mathematics.
PETER DRUCKER Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
PETER DRUCKER So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
PETER DRUCKER The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
PETER DRUCKER There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER DRUCKER INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER DRUCKER