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
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — 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
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy,… — 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
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — 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
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. — 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
