Famous Quotes / Peter Drucker
26 Quotations by Peter Drucker
- 1. "Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowl ...
- 2. Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a ...
- 3. Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths ar ...
- 4. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next m ...
- 5. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a ne ...
- 6. It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations ex ...
- 7. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a ...
- 8. Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- 9. Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the tim ...
- 10. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- 11. Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s ...
- 12. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organi ...
- 13. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- 14. Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out a ...
- 15. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- 16. Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting care ...
- 17. Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ ...
- 18. The computer is a moron.
- 19. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- 20. The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.