Quotes by Peter F. Drucker

Peter F. Drucker

Peter F. Drucker

American management consultant and writer

Lived from: 1909 - 2005

Category: Business and entrepreneurs | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 19 november 1909 Died: 11 november 2005

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  • Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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  • The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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  • The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
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  • Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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  • Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
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  • Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
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  • Decision making is the specific executive task.
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  • Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
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  • Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
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  • Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
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  • Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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  • Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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  • Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
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  • My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
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  • Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.
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  • So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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  • Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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  • The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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  • The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
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