Quotes by

Peter Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, thats another matter. – Peter Drucker

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. – Peter Drucker

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. – Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. – Peter Drucker

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. – Peter Drucker

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. – Peter Drucker

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. – Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. – Peter Drucker

There are no creeds in mathematics. – Peter Drucker

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. – Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isnt being said. – Peter Drucker

Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you dont. – Peter Drucker

People who dont take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. – Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isnt said. – Peter Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what youve got. – Peter Drucker

Business, thats easily defined – its other peoples money. – Peter Drucker

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. – Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. – Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. – Peter Drucker