Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Druckerwas an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management"...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth19 November 1909
Peter Drucker quotes about
- yesterday
- tomorrow
- inspirational
- change
- leadership
- management
- evolve
- intuitive
- managers
- perception
- fragility
- dangerous
- institutions
- effectiveness
- focus
- secret
- deep-understanding
- excellence
- weakness
- risk
- definitions
- agents
- change-agent
- measurement
- measure-for-measure
- cant-change
- top-management
- innovation
- challenges
- people
color car long
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
facts profit concepts
The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.
party cutting men
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.
retail insurance-companies company
Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
country thinking growth
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
motivational yield resources
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
purpose missions customers
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.
important needs knowledge-workers
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
commitment command objectives
Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.
motivated has-beens written
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
eye matter tasks
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant
leadership leader made
Leaders grow; they are not made.
knights age embodiment
If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.
work yesterday society
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.