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PETER GILCREST First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most... PETER MCWILLIAMS Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see t... PETER KLINE The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp... PETER MCWILLIAMS When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. PETER DRUCKER Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. PETER DRUCKER If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. PETER LYNCH It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. PETER TOWNSEND A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. PETER USTINOV I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are tau... PETER USTINOV Decision making is the specific executive task. PETER DRUCKER Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. PETER WASTHOLM However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when s... PETER QUENNELL The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance... PETER CONRAD If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. PETER LAURENCE Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do no... PETER DRUCKER All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though ... PETER KLINE The best way to predict the future is to create it. PETER DRUCKER Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. PETER DRUCKER The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ... PETER DRUCKER God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless... PETER MARSHALL Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t... 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