Peter Drucker Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Opportunity, Careers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.16, Harvard Business Review Press

• 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

• 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

• Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Opportunity, Yesterday

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.67, Routledge

• Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Giving, Quality

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.244, Routledge

• Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

  Peter Drucker

  Ideas, Action, Placement

• Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Economy, Knows, Values

• During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Change, Essence

• Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

  Peter Drucker

  Giving, Quality, Use

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.280, Routledge

• The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Real, Responsibility

• True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

  Peter Drucker

  Reality, Marketing, Doe

• Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Attitude, Years

• Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowing, Organization, Understanding

• The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

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

• "Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

  Peter Drucker

  Retail, Insurance Companies, Company

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

• Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

  Peter Drucker

  Issues, Groups, Moral

  "The Age of Social Transformation". The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, No. 5., November 1994.

• Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Years, Keys

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