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Welles was an astute and worldly man about everything but his art. He couldn't afford to be otherwise.


Peter Bogdanovich

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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 So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
PETER DRUCKER The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
PETER DRUCKER There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
PETER DRUCKER INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor...
PETER DRUCKER Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps t...
PETER RUSSELL The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy...
PETER MCWILLIAMS