Firsts Quotes by Peter Drucker

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

— Peter Drucker

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

— Peter Drucker

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the…

— Peter Drucker

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

— Peter Drucker

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your…

— Peter Drucker

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

— Peter Drucker

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

— Peter Drucker

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making…

— Peter Drucker

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing…

— Peter Drucker

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

— Peter Drucker

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you…

— Peter Drucker

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into…

— Peter Drucker

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based…

— Peter Drucker

Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and…

— Peter Drucker

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even…

— Peter Drucker

To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can…

— Peter Drucker

You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military…

— Peter Drucker

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.…

— Peter Drucker

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication… Good editors are…

— Peter Drucker

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant…

— Peter Drucker

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that…

— Peter Drucker

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation…

— Peter Drucker

The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three…

— Peter Drucker

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

— Peter Drucker

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one…

— Peter Drucker

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years…

— Peter Drucker

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in…

— Peter Drucker