Peter Drucker Quotes About Achievement

Quotes about: Achievement

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.123, Routledge

• Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

  Peter Drucker

  Vocabulary, Careers, Achievement

• Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Achievement, Genius

• An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Organization

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

• Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Effectiveness, Systematic

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.1, HarperCollins

• Leadership is an achievement of trust.

  Peter Drucker

  Achievement

• Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

  Peter Drucker

  Achievement, Size, Competence

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

• The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Reality, Eight

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

• Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

  Peter Drucker

  Personality, Achievement, Humanity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.175, Routledge

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