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 stupid way
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
people
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
country tasks management
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
real shoes results
Shoes are real. Money is an end result.
firsts steps achieve
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
taken government corporations
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
priorities picks
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
responsibility decision accountability
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
causes results profit
Profit is not a cause but a result-
past entrepreneur shifting
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
eggs ideas frogs
Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
communication empathy understanding
To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.
information becoming different
Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.
tests purpose profit
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity