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Peter Drucker Quotes - Page 16

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An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Organization, Accomplishment, Excellence

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Ideas, Listening, Asking

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Innovation, Marketing, Cost

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.90, Routledge

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

Knowledge, Hands, People

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

Cynical, Vices, Benefits

Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.340, Routledge

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Purpose, Definitions, Enterprise

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Taken, Government, Principles

Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.107, Routledge

The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.

Spiritual, Men, Needs

"Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Alternatives, Anarchy, Disappear

Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.107, Routledge

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

Mistake, Care, Good Intentions

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Ideas, Leader, Moral

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

Innovation, Trying, Grandiose

Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.154, Routledge

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

Learning, Knowledge, Unique

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

Issues, Groups, Moral

"The Age of Social Transformation". The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, No. 5., November 1994.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Change, Long, Would Be

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Data, Marketing, Action

Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.5, Harper Collins

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Technology, Innovation, Economics

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.92, Routledge

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

Past, Opposites, Government

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.

Promise, Overcoming, Unbroken

Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.36, Routledge

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

What Matters, Race, Leader

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.3, Routledge

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

Thinking, Half, Unions

"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

Writing, Years, Firsts

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing.

Running, Business, Marketing

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