Peter Drucker Quotes - 3
More Peter Drucker Quotes - 3
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter Drucker— (1954) The Practice of Management p.37
In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
Peter Drucker— p. 64 (The Future of Industrial Man (1942))
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government...
Peter Drucker— p. 96 (The Future of Industrial Man (1942))
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
Peter Drucker— p. 96 (The Future of Industrial Man (1942))
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.
Peter Drucker— p. 304 (The Practice of Management (1954))
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
Peter Drucker— p.327 (The Practice of Management (1954))
- A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people .
Peter Drucker— p.344 (The Practice of Management (1954))
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
Peter Drucker— p. 121 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...
Peter Drucker— p. 144 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))
In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Peter Drucker— p. 144 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))
Our society has become an employee society.
Peter Drucker— p. 4 (MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973))
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
Peter Drucker— p. 5 (MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973))
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
Peter Drucker— p.30 (MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973))
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 9, pg.119
Decisions exist only in the present.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 10, pg.125
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 12, pg.140
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 14, pg.159
Management has authority only as long as it performs.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 23, pg.301
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 23, pg.303
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 37, pg.475
Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across."
Peter Drucker— Chapter 38, pg.487
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 40, pg.513
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 56, pg.681
Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 57, pg.707
The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 59, pg.739
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
Peter Drucker— I got my degree through E-mail, Forbes (June 16, 1997)
...human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.
Peter Drucker— Civilizing the City, Leader to Leader, No. 7 (Winter 1998)
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"
Peter Drucker— p. 137 (Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992))
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer .
Peter Drucker— (1954) The Practice of Management p.37
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
Peter Drucker— As quoted in 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself (2004) by Steve Chandler, p. 25
