Peter Ferdinand Drucker Quotes

• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management, Power

  Tags in Managers, Privilege, Confer, Responsibility

• 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 Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Needs

• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorant, Consultant, Ask, Questions, Adviser

• 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 Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Decisions

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Boss, Percent

• Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Constantly, Vanishes, Encouraging

• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Innovation, Resources, Act, Wealth

• Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Computer, Expectations

  Tags in Operators, Installed, Employment, Expensive, Realized, Company

• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Job, Leadership, Management, Work

  Tags in Tolerate, Organization, Responsibility

• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership, Management

  Tags in Speech, Solution

• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Country, Work

  Tags in Corporate Culture, Changing Culture, Company

• 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 Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Decisions, Expectations, Management

  Tags in Information

• Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Volunteer, Accept, Treat, Relationships

• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Performance

• People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Leadership

• Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Duty, Mind

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

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Computer

• The computer is a moron.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Computer

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (55)

Birth:	19th November, 1909
Death:	11th November, 2005
Nationality:	American, Austrian
Profession:	Author, Educator, Consultant

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