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
time unique yesterday
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.
leadership future-leaders great-leader
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
uncomfortable ifs paid
As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.
inspirational success confidence
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
teaching leader half
We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop
decision choices facts
Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.
goal demand
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
integrity important right-thing
It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
communication important cocktails
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
motivational leadership business
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
mba lunch decision
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
motivation book writing
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
decision makers situation
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
technology opportunity yesterday
Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.