A Quote by Peter Drucker

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Peter Drucker

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Concession Definition Either Meetings Meets Organization Works

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Peter Drucker
American - Businessman
November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005

One either meets or one works.

Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter Drucker

My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.

Chesty Puller

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

Stephen Fry

It's much harder to detect a lone wolf than it is somebody who's associated with a larger organization who's having planning meetings and making phone calls to people in the organization. And so that is really how the jihad has really developed in the United States.

Peter Bergen

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

Hilary Swank

A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.

Dinesh Paliwal

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Duke of Wellington

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.

Seth Klarman

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

Julia Michaels

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

Karl Lagerfeld

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Helena Bonham Carter

Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

RuPaul

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient. I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.