Peter Drucker (November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005) aged 95, and he was a management consultant, educator, and author. He ever received the award Henry Laurence Gantt Medal (1959), Austrian
Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1991), and Presidential
Medal of Freedom (2002).
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| 39 Top Quotes by Peter Drucker - Business Ideas
Here are the 39 famous quotes by Peter Drucker as below:
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1. “The best way to predict
the future is to create it.”
2. “Management is doing
things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
3. “The aim of marketing is
to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and
sells itself.”
4. “Unless commitment is made, there are only
promises and hopes… but no plans.”
5. “Plans are only good
intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
6. “The only thing we know
about the future is that it will be different.”
7. “The productivity of
work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
8. “Making good decisions
is a crucial skill at every level.”
9. “Effective leadership is
not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not
attributes.”
10. “Company cultures are
like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what
you’ve got.”
11. “Knowledge has to be
improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”
12. “Time is the scarcest
resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
13. “Doing the right thing
is more important than doing the thing right.”
14. “If you want something
new, you have to stop doing something old.”
15. “Results are gained by
exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”
16. “Long-range planning
does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present
decisions.”
17. “Meetings are a symptom
of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
18. “The better a man is the
more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.”
19. “What you have to do and
the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do
it, that’s another matter.”
20. “No one learns as much
about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
21. “Whenever you see a
successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
22. “Business has only two
functions — marketing and innovation.”
23. “History has been
written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.”
24. “Do not believe that it
is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.”
25. “The most serious
mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous
thing is asking the wrong question.”
26. “Managers are
action-focused; they are not philosophers and should not be.”
27. “If you have more than
five goals, you have none.”
28. “There are two types of
people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give
you reasons why they didn’t.”
29. “The critical question
is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?””
30. “Every time you do
something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.”
31. “To make a living is no
longer enough. Work also has to make a life.”
32. “There are just two
questions to ask to attain success in business: First, “What business am I in?”
Second, “How’s business?””
33. “Education gives you
neither experience nor wisdom.”
34. “Customers pay only for
what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”
35. “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.”
36. “You can’t manage what
you don’t measure.”
37. “Success always
obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.”
38. “Do not measure your
life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.”
39. “A success that has
outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
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