Quote #74

I had sat [in schools] long enough. I would be an adult among other adults--I had never liked being young, and contested the company of delayed adolescents as I thought most college students to be. I would earn a living and be financially independent. [recollections from age 17]

More from Peter F. Drucker

  1. When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
  2. Legitimate is a power when it is justified by an ethical or metaphysical principle that has been accepted by a society.
  3. Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
  4. The non-profits spend far less for results than governments spend for failure.
  5. Management is doing things right, Leadership is doing the right things!
  6. At least once every five years every form should be put on trial for its life.
  7. [the masses] ...must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and …
  8. If only for esthetic reasons, I am not overfond of the term 'Bottom-Up Management.'

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