A Quote by Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

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

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.

William McDonough

The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Peter Drucker

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Tim Ferriss

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

Bob Edwards

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

Dean Kamen

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

Jason Kander

The key is to make sure you are doing the "right things" before you worry about doing things "right".

Bill Capodagli

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.