Peter Drucker
Austria
19 Nov 1909 // 11 Nov 2005
Management Consultant / Educator / Author
19 Nov 1909 // 11 Nov 2005
Management Consultant / Educator / Author
Quotes
<< Prev Next >>
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
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.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
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.
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays