Company Quotes by Peter Drucker

All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.

— Peter Drucker

Manage yourself and then your company.

— Peter Drucker

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

— Peter Drucker

The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it's selling.

— Peter Drucker

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

— Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

— Peter Drucker

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

— Peter Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

— Peter Drucker

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and…

— Peter Drucker

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must…

— Peter Drucker

"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any…

— Peter Drucker

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game.…

— Peter Drucker

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the…

— Peter Drucker

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're…

— Peter Drucker

The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never…

— Peter Drucker

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have…

— Peter Drucker

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business…

— Peter Drucker

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders…

— Peter Drucker

Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative…

— Peter Drucker

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or…

— Peter Drucker

The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations…

— Peter Drucker

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial…

— Peter Drucker