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
inspirational business future
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
art mean years
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.
men effectiveness systematic
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
moving effectiveness steps
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.
jobs cynical challenges
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.
people priorities littles
No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
jobs use tools
You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.
jobs skills numbers
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
people entrepreneur needs
People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.
school responsibility preparation
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.
art execution strategy
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
mean decision important
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.
life wise funny-inspirational
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
two long entrepreneur
Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.