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
two business-success firsts
There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"
two innovation marketing
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.
two giving people
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
two europe christianity
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
two innovation marketing
There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.
art years keys
Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.
art giving ornaments
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...
inspirational wise entrepreneur
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
art practice young-entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
strong people weakness
Strong people have strong weaknesses.
opportunity systematic looks
Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.
inspirational commitment keeping-promises
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
thinking people knows
What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
animal men survival
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal ... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.