Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
Peter Drucker
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Manage
Ahead
Cannot
Change
More quotes by Peter Drucker
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.
Peter Drucker
Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?
Peter Drucker
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
Peter Drucker
The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Peter Drucker
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
Peter Drucker
Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialized activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customer's point of view.
Peter Drucker
Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.
Peter Drucker
Strong people have strong weaknesses.
Peter Drucker
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.
Peter Drucker
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
Peter Drucker
Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.
Peter Drucker
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
Peter Drucker
Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.
Peter Drucker
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
Peter Drucker
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
Peter Drucker
Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
Peter Drucker
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Peter Drucker
All companies are service companies some also manufacture products.
Peter Drucker
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
Peter Drucker
