Quote

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

Peter Drucker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
Author
Businessperson
Columnist
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Sculptor
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Fact
Treats
Facts
Motivation
Accept
Anybody
Leadership
Accepting
Relationship
Volunteer
Almost
Treat

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.
Peter Drucker
Image
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
Image
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
Peter Drucker
Image
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker
Image
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?
Peter Drucker
Image
The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.
Peter Drucker
Image
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
Peter Drucker
Image
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
Peter Drucker
Image
Ideas are cheap and abundant what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
Peter Drucker
Image
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
Image
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Peter Drucker
Image
One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.
Peter Drucker
Image
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
Image
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
Peter Drucker
Image
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker
Image
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.
Peter Drucker
Image
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
Peter Drucker
Image
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than making deals. Management affects people and their lives.
Peter Drucker
Image
Nobody can predict the future the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
Peter Drucker
Image
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
Peter Drucker