Peter Drucker Quotes
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...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
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The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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The world economy is not yet a community-not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the 'global shopping center' is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.
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The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
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That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
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The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
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Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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Profit is not a cause but a result-
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We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.
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Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.
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When Henry Ford said, 'The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black,' he was not joking.
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Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
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The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
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In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
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Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government...