Peter Drucker Quotes
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
The productive worker doesn’t have to work so hard – he works smarter.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well, the product or service fits them and sells itself.
Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter Drucker Quotes part 2
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
The very best strategy can become boring and rigid if it is not responsive to change.
The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Don’t repeat to yourself the same excuses and clichés, as if you’re the prisoner of the past.
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
In every success story, you will find someone who made a courageous decision.
What gets measured gets improved.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people – that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.