Peter Ferdinand Drucker Quotes

• If you ever run into an industry that says it needs better people, sell its shares. There are no better people. You have to use ordinary, every-day people and make them capable of doing the work.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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• Entrepreneurship can be learned, but it can’t be taught, so schools are not much good.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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  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.

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  Tags in Probability, Industries, Born

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Commitment, Inspirational, Leadership

  Tags in Planning

• 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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  Topics in Future, Inspirational

  Tags in Foresight, Predict, Forecasting, Drive

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Education, Knowledge, Opportunity, Power

  Tags in Advancement, Today

• The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management, Work

  Tags in Productivity, Worker, Responsibility

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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  Tags in Change

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Hearing, Thoughtful, Communication

• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Entrepreneurship, Change

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

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  Topics in Advice, Future, Life

  Tags in Create

• The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Tags in Marketing, Customers

• 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

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

• Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Business

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management, Work

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (55)

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

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