A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.” — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures -… — 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
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. — 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
