Peter Drucker Quotes

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  The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Yesterday, Logic

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• The bеѕt wау tо predict уоur future іѕ tо create it.

  Peter Drucker

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

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  Organization, Confusion, Excellence

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• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

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  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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• If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

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  Measurement, Measure For Measure, Can't Change

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Order, Today, Tomorrow

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  Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

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  Culture, Breakfast, Strategy

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• What gets measured gets managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Clever, Ironic

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• Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

  Peter Drucker

  Deep Understanding, Excellence, Weakness

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

  Peter Drucker

  Wells, Wrong Things

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• The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

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  Skills, Important, Century

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• The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Company, Customers

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• The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

  Peter Drucker

  Race, Humans, Persons

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Decision, Answers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.304, Routledge

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• If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

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  Priorities, Needs, Done

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• History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

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  Motivated, Has Beens, Written

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• Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Oxygen, Breathing

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• Leadership is an achievement of trust.

  Peter Drucker

  Achievement

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• Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Differences, Life Is

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• The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, People, Managers

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• The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

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  Organization, Ordinary, Purpose

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.361, Routledge

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• What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Doe, Customers, Utility

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.57, Routledge

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• One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. 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 is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, Yesterday

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