Famous Quotes / Peter F. Drucker
55 Quotations by Peter F. Drucker
- 1. A business exists to create a customer.
- 2. Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
- 3. Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
- 4. Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as con ...
- 5. Decision-making is the specific executive task.
- 6. Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
- 7. Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
- 8. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like ...
- 9. Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
- 10. Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and ...
- 11. Focus on the contribution that you can make.
- 12. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new ...
- 13. INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor ...
- 14. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- 15. Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise.
- 16. Leadership is not magnetic personality -- that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making f ...
- 17. Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
- 18. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- 19. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowled ...
- 20. Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.