Peter Drucker Quotes

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Peter Drucker

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 19, 1909

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Peter Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

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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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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

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Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

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