“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”
Business
“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Peter Drucker
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
Change“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
Power“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Best“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Knowledge“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
Time“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
Knowledge“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
Communication“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Work“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
Business“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
Leadership“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
Future“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
Knowledge“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
Business“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
Work“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Business“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”
Knowledge“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
Leadership“Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.”
Leadership“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
Education