Peter Drucker Famous Quotes
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
The computer is a moron.
"The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society."
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."
"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker Quotations
"I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Roosevelt Eleanor
"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead"
Pierre Corneille
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them."
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
There was never a great man who had not a great mother
Oliver Schreiner
"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling."
Joseph Addison
"Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye."
Marie Louise De La Ramee