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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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What are the most famous quotes from Peter F. Drucker?

The two most famous quotes from Peter F. Drucker are:

  • "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
  • "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

When did Peter F. Drucker live?

Peter F. Drucker was born in 1909 and died in the year 2005.