All Peter Drucker Quotes
- The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive. Achieve
- Shoes are real. Money is an end result. End
- It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him. Demand
- Our society has become an employee society. Employee
- With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe. Basic
- There is a point at which a transformation has to take place. Funny
- Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. Constitutes
- The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. Esteem
- The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual… Business
- Leaders grow; they are not made. Grow
- Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant Eye
- History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. Been
- Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts… Carry
- Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen. Down
- In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. Caste
- Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving… Abysmally
- As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. All
- Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There… Back Time
- Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Attributes
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Business