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 yesterday forever
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.
leadership organization doe
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
marketing selling aim
The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
responsibility demand want
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.
example development irresistible
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
educational loyal-customers quality
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
motivational business loyal-customers
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
leadership wise funny-inspirational
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
responsibility decision steps
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
country business future
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.
effectiveness focus secret
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
leadership should-have organization
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
yesterday risk definitions
All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.
ignorant-masses asking-questions asking-too-many-questions
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.