Peter Drucker Quotes
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The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices-we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.
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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
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A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
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Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: 'I know what Anne or John is trying to do.'
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There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
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There is a definite trend in Italy and Germany to eliminate profit participation and the ownership rights of nonmanaging partners and shareholders.
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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
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The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
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Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
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The ‘total state’ of fascism is not a political alignment within the existing political and social setup, but that it is a revolution which, like all revolutions, works from without.
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Once a year ask the boss, 'What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?' and 'What do I or my people do that hampers you?'
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For if this country... were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.
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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
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Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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Morale in an organization does not mean that 'people get along together'; the test is performance not conformance.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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The society of organizations\\ is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
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It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
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The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.