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 wise peace
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
excellence enemy adequacy
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
knowing people life-is
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
life wise funny-inspirational
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
communication information hiding
Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
greatness keys people
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
clever 4-hour-work-week motivational-management
What gets measured gets managed.
inspirational change leadership
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
work future entrepreneur
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
loyalty attitude men
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"-he owes performance and nothing else. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
believe giving quality
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.
leadership teamwork jobs
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
change yesterday logic
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
love inspirational life
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.