In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker” — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
