Peter Drucker Quotes

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Peter Drucker

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 19, 1909

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

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The only way to predict the future is to create it.

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

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Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

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The computer is a moron.

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Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

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