Peter F. Drucker
Austrian-American management thinker, 1909-2005
54 quotes.
Quotes by Peter F. Drucker
- The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
- The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
- The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
- The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
- There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.
- There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
- There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
- To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it.
- Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
- Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
- 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.
- Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
- We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.
- Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.