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
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- Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money. – Peter Drucker
- So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done. – Peter Drucker
- Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got. — Peter Drucker
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. – Cat Cora
- History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols – boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale – from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband – is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. – Hugh Evans
- An educated people can be easily governed. – Frederick the Great
- “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
- You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. – P. J. O’Rourke
- “A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and