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
real organization differences
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.
believe leader needs
Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
opportunity systematic looks
Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.
believe easy very-good
What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.
company products
All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.
effectiveness race quality
The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
running greatness tests
The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.
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.
military defense purpose
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.
integrity character faults
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.
germany entitlement welfare
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.
hard-times elephants cockroaches
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
innovation marketing cost
Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.
kissing planning entrepreneurship
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.