Quote

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

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
People
Perform
Weakness
Building
Help
Helping
Better
Strengths
Trying
Eliminate
Make
Weaknesses

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.
Peter Drucker
Image
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
Peter Drucker
Image
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.
Peter Drucker
Image
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
Peter Drucker
Image
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Image
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
Peter Drucker
Image
Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?
Peter Drucker
Image
The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.
Peter Drucker
Image
There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.
Peter Drucker
Image
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
Peter Drucker
Image
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money we also feel we need to work.
Peter Drucker
Image
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.
Peter Drucker
Image
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.
Peter Drucker
Image
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
Peter Drucker
Image
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
Peter Drucker
Image
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
Peter Drucker
Image
Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.
Peter Drucker
Image
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker
Image
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
Peter Drucker
Image
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on human relations the group is probably too large.
Peter Drucker