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Peter Drucker Quotes about Business - Page 2

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Motivational, Business, Book

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Business, Frustration, Important

Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management”, p.31, Harper Collins

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.

Country, Business, Future

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Business, Keys, Challenges

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

Business, Work, Mean

Peter F. Drucker (2014). “The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management”, p.65, Harper Collins

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

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Retirement, Jobs, Business

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.

Business, Power, Doe

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.272, Routledge

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Business, Events, Reason

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

Education, Business, Philosophy

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Business, Worry, Meals

"Business Wit & Wisdom". Book by Richard Zera, p. 60, en.wikiquote.org. March 31, 2005.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

Business, Ideas, People

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Business, Sovereign, Criteria

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Business, Communication, Technology

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

Business, Real, Responsibility

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Business, Past, Entrepreneur

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