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
time yesterday forever
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.
inspirational wise entrepreneur
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
technology opportunity yesterday
Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.
leadership organization doe
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
decision makers situation
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
economy knows values
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
numbers spontaneity infinite
Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.
jobs giving people
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.
learning knowledge mean
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
integrity important right-thing
It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
mba lunch decision
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
motivational leadership business
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
motivation book writing
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
art practice young-entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.