35 quotes by Peter Drucker

“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” — Peter Drucker

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“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” — Peter Drucker

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“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.” — Peter Drucker

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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter Drucker

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“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” — Peter Drucker

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“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” — Peter Drucker

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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” — Peter Drucker

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“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.” — Peter Drucker

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“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” — Peter Drucker

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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” — Peter Drucker

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“Never mind your happiness do your duty.” — Peter Drucker

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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

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“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” — Peter Drucker

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“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.” — Peter Drucker

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“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.” — Peter Drucker

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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.” — Peter Drucker

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“Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.” — Peter Drucker

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“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” — Peter Drucker

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“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.” — Peter Drucker

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“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” — Peter Drucker

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“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.” — Peter Drucker

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“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.” — Peter Drucker

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“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.” — Peter Drucker

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“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.” — Peter Drucker

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