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
facts doe opinion
One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.
smart frustration years
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.
groups relation humans
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.
yesterday tomorrow
Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.
focus cost may
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
strategy structure missions
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.
social function enterprise
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.
remember irrelevant
We always remember best the irrelevant.
generations lifetime individual
A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.
definitions resources enterprise
The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.
government advice pieces
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
race humans persons
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.
successful innovation exploits
It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.
purpose definitions enterprise
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.