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
motivational simple will-and-determination
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
education sole states
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
communication mean commitment
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.
teaching skills forgotten
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
morning book school
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.
motivation goal achieve
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
innovation vision done
Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
teamwork play people
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
world wealth economy
I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.
vision paradox prophet
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
retirement jobs humorous
There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
greatness giving-money people
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
growing-up here-i-am eight
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
causes results profit
Profit is not a cause but a result-