彼得德魯克的人生格言
1. 智力、想像力及知識，都是我們重要的資源。但是，資源本身所能達成的是有限的，惟有“有效性”才能將這些資源轉化為成果。Intelligence, imagination, and Knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
2. 誰必須利用我的產出，以使我的產出卓有成效?Who has to use my output for it to become effective?
3. 有效的管理者在用人所長的同時，必須容忍人之所短。The effectiveness __executive knows that to get strength one has to put Up with weakness.
4. 有效的管理者用人，是著眼於機會，而非著眼於問題。 They focus on opportunity in their staffing-not on problems.
5. 我們該知道運用自己上司的長處，這也正是下屬工作卓有成效的關鍵。
6. 有效的管理者需要的是決策的衝擊，而不是決策的技巧;要的是好的決策，而不是巧的決策。They want impact rather than technique, they want to be sound rather than clever.
7. 有效的決策人，首先要辨明問題的性質：這是一再發生的經常性問題呢，還是偶然的例外?The first question the effective decision-maker asks is：“Is this a generic situation or an exception?”
8. 要看“正當的決策”是什麼，而不是“人能接受的”是什麼。One has to start out with what is right than what is acceptable.
9. 我們應該將行動納入決策當中，否則就是紙上談兵。v A Decision will not become effective unless the Action commitments have been built into the Decision from the start.
10. 有效的管理者都知道一項決策不是從蒐集事實開始的，而是先有自己的見解。People do not start out with the Search for facts, they start out with an Opinion.
11. 決策的反面，是不做任何決策。
12. 除非有不同的見解，否則就不可能有決策。The first rule in Decision-making is that one does not make a Decision unless there is disagreement.
13. 有效的的管理者會問：“我是不是真需要一項決策?”There is one final the effective decision-maker asks：“Is a Decision really necessary?”
14. 決策需要熬受痛苦There is no inherent reason why decisions should be distasteful.
15. 有效管理者的自我發展，是組織發展的關鍵所在。Self-development of the effective __executive is central to the development of the Organization.
16. 管理者，就必須卓有成效。To be effective，is the Job of the __executive
17. “認識你的時間”,只要你肯, 就是一條卓有成效之路.“Know Thy Time” if he wants to, and be well on the road toward contribution and effectiveness.
18. 卓有成效是可以學會的.Effectiveness can be learned.
19. 卓有成效是一種習慣,是不斷訓練出來的綜合體.Effectiveness is a habit; that is a complex of practices.
20. 一個重視貢獻的人,為成果負責的人,不管他職位多卑微,他仍屬於“高層管理者”.The Man Who focuses on contribution and Who takes Responsibility for results, no matter how junior, is in the most literal sense of the phrase,“top Management”.
21. 有效的管理者堅持把重要的事放在前面做，每次只做好一件事。They concentrate their own time and energy as well as that of their organization-on doing one thing at a time, and on doing first things first.
22. 管理者的一項具體任務就是要把今天的資源投入到創造未來中去。v To commit today’s resources to the futuRe.
23. 有效的管理者打算做一項新的業務，一定先刪除一項原有的業務.The effective __executive will slough off an old Activity before he starts on a new one.
24. “專心”是一種勇氣，敢於決定真正該做和真正先做的工作。Concentration-that is, the courage to impose on time and events his own Decision as to what really matters and comes first.
25. 有效的管理者不做太多的決策。他們所做的，都是重大的決策。Effective __executives do not make a great many decisions.They concentrate on the important ones.