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
believe giving quality
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
giving quality use
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
character leader quality
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.
thinking becoming brainstorming
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
believe three unnecessary
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.
people tasks doe
One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.
believe hard-work men
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
opportunity progress guarantees
Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.
thinking assumption
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
One either meets or one works.