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Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.


Peter Prange

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PETER TOWNSEND The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
PETER DRUCKER There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
PETER DRUCKER I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
PETER TOWNSEND What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to d...
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 Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps t...
PETER RUSSELL