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Quotes by

Peter Drucker

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. – Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. – Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. – Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. – Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. – Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. – Peter Drucker

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. – Peter Drucker

Never mind your happiness do your duty. – Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. – Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. – Peter 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

The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. – Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron. – Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. – Peter Drucker

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. – Peter Drucker

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

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

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. – Peter Drucker