Peter Drucker Quotes

Peter Drucker
American Businessman
Born: Nov 19, 1909
Died: Nov 11, 2005
About Business Leadership Management People Work
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn John D. Rockefeller Les Brown Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. Peter Drucker
Commitment Made Promises Unless Hopes Only Plans
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Peter Drucker
Work People Management Difficult Consists Most Call Making Get Done
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
Nothing Doing Efficiently Done Which Should Useless
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Peter Drucker
Service Aim Marketing Know Well Him Understand Fits Itself Sells Customer Product
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker
Leadership Defined About Results Liked Attributes Making Effective Being Speeches
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker
Future Will Be Different About Only Know Different The Only Thing Thing
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker
Business Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Responds Always Exploits Searches
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker
Today Knowledge Opportunity Power Advancement Access Controls
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
Work Hard Work Good Good Intentions Unless Immediately Degenerate Only Intentions Hard Plans
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker
Business Purpose Customer Create
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. Peter Drucker
Work Responsibility Manager Worker Productivity
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Peter Drucker
Future Drive Country Looking Predict Down Back Out Window Road Lights Like Trying While Night
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. Peter Drucker
Happiness Mind Duty Never Your
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Peter Drucker
Change Learning People Pressing Abreast Fact Lifelong Most Learn Accept How Task Process Teach Now Keeping
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. Peter Drucker
Good Leadership Every Crucial Making Decisions Skill Level
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. Peter Drucker
Leadership Needs Way Possibly Must Composed Able Along Institution Geniuses Survive Get Manage Human Human Beings Average Organized Such A Way Beings
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker
Strength Few Consultant Greatest Greatest Strength Questions Ask Ignorant
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
Time Business Nothing Else Resource Unless
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker
Reflection Will Action Follow More Come Effective Quiet Even
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker
Innovation Wealth Resources Entrepreneurship New Instrument Capacity Create Act Specific
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker
Work People Management Difficult Consists Call Making Much
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker
Teacher Man Tools Somehow Only Rely Developed Performance Major Know Make Occupation How Person Which Capable Average Average Person Teach Teaching Who Competence
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. Peter Drucker
Mistake Dangerous Matter Decision Assume Only Most Make Executives Making Discussions Senior Decision-Making Decisions
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter Drucker
Education Totally Obsolete Make Course Becomes Subject Required
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. Peter Drucker
Together Management Way Out Possible Most Efficient Anything Turn Produce Product Many Activities Bring Needed
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. Peter Drucker
Work You Change Try Country Never Instead Like Got Cultures Company
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