Peter Drucker Quotes About Business

Quotes about: Business

• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.33, Routledge

• 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.

• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

• More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Lunch, Mba

• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

• What gets measured gets managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Clever, Ironic

• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

• We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Business, Book

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Strong

• The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Business, Work

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.15, Routledge

• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Senior, Business, Mistake

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Life, Wise, Time

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

• Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Views, Marketing

  "The Practice of Management".

• Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Organization, Definitions

  "The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker".

• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Business, Future

• Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Important, Doing The Right Thing

• The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, People

• The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Business, Loyal Customers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Frontiers of Management”, p.224, Routledge

• The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Data, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.11, Routledge

• Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, Creativity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.67, Routledge

• Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Sovereign, Criteria

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