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
daily days insight motivation
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done.
american-businessman efficiency
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
change country trying
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
success attention persons
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
suicide war long
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.
strong people weakness
Strong people have strong weaknesses.
men personality tasks
An employer has no business with a man's personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
order today tomorrow
The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
rain people heaven
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.
war fighting essence
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society--its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.
country law suffering
We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .
spiritual men order
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
spiritual men order
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.