Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
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
Action
Reflecting
Effective
Reflection
Follow
Quiet
More quotes by Peter Drucker
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.
Peter Drucker
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker
If you want to predict the future create it.
Peter Drucker
Any organisation develops people it either forms them or deforms them.
Peter Drucker
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.
Peter Drucker
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant
Peter Drucker
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
Peter Drucker
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
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
Peter Drucker
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.
Peter Drucker
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter Drucker
There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter Drucker
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent
Peter Drucker
There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.
Peter Drucker
We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.
Peter Drucker
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
Peter Drucker
All companies are service companies some also manufacture products.
Peter Drucker
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word school - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning leisure.
Peter Drucker
Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.
Peter Drucker
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
