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
art war two
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
real men thinking
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
art war growth
The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
greatness giving-money people
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
country successful government
Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.
agents change-agent
Business is society's change agent.
results company
Results is all that separates one company from another.
decision tests causes
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.
retirement jobs humorous
There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
groups relation humans
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.
congruence
Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.
facts profit concepts
The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.
facts doe opinion
One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.
achievement personality humanity
Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.