Peter Ferdinand Drucker Quotes

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (52)

Birth:	19th November, 1909
Death:	11th November, 2005
Nationality:	American, Austrian
Profession:	Author, Educator, Consultant

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• One of the fine arts of management is to communicate (a) sense of urgency to the people who work for you… Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time  you haven’t.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization

• The better a man is the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote into a top level job a man who was not making mistakes…otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organization

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Performance

• There are no creeds in mathematics.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Religion, Truth

  Tags in Mathematics, Faith, Creed, Credo
• 

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Advice, Future, Life

  Tags in Create

• 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.’

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Computer, Expectations

  Tags in Operators, Installed, Employment, Expensive, Realized, Company

• 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.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Major, Performance, Capable, Teacher, Teaching, Capacity

• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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  Tags in Subject, Course, Required, Obsolete, Totally, Make, Become

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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  Tags in Ignorant, Consultant, Ask, Questions, Adviser

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management, Work

  Tags in Their, Consists, Call, Get, Done, Most, Making, Difficult

• Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Duty, Mind

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Country, Work

  Tags in Corporate Culture, Changing Culture, Company

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Hearing, Thoughtful, Communication

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Effort, Success, Vision

  Tags in Effectiveness, Plans, Purpose, Labor

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Commitment, Inspirational, Leadership

  Tags in Planning

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management

  Tags in Speech, Solution

• 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.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pressing, People Strategy, Change, Learning, Teaching

• We can say with certainty – or 90% probability – that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probability, Industries, Born

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Innovation, Resources, Act, Wealth

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Managed, Resource, Else, Time, Unless, Nothing