Peter Drucker Quotes - Famous Quotes by Peter Drucker
Born: 1909-11-19
Died: 2005-11-11
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"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
- Peter Drucker
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Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.
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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
- Peter F. Drucker
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Peter Drucker
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In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
- Peter Drucker
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
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Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker
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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.
- Peter Drucker
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
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The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker
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The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Peter F. Drucker
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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