Peter Drucker Quotes

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

Leadership, Making, Results

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Management

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

Best, Future, Create

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

Communication, Important, Said

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker

Business, Money, Defined

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

Decision, Decisions, Matter

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

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

Business, Work, Done

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Human, Able

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

Him, Understand, Service

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

Knowledge, Challenged, Constantly

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 Drucker

Teacher, Person, Teach

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.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Mistakes, Two

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.
Peter Drucker

Future, Night, Down

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 Drucker

Learning, Change, Learn

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter Drucker

Made, Unless, Commitment

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

Work, Knowledge, Manager

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

Business, Change, Exploits

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

Work, Good, Hard

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

Act, Wealth, Create

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker

Happiness, Mind, Duty

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.
Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Decision, Against

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter Drucker

Time, Works, Percent

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

Strength, Greatest, Few

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

Power, Give, Privilege

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: November 19, 1909

Died: November 11, 2005

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