Peter Drucker Quotes - Page 3

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• Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Opportunity, Careers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.16, Harvard Business Review Press

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• We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Trying, Weakness

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• If you have more than five goals, you have none.

  Peter Drucker

  Goal, Five, Ifs

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• What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Doe, Customers, Utility

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.57, Routledge

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, People, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Frontiers of Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Loyalty, Attitude, Men

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

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, People, Giving

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• Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Symptoms, Committees

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• If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Focus, Secret

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• The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Way, Determined

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

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• Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

  Peter Drucker

  Humor, Deep Thought

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• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Kick Ass, Manage

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• Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Needs

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• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Responsibility, Ranking

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

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• The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Decision, Answers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.304, Routledge

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• The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

  Peter Drucker

  Loyalty, Educational, Selling Products

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, People, Managers

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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• One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, Yesterday

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• No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Priorities, Littles

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.114, Routledge

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• Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

  Peter Drucker

  Lynching, Choices, Decision

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• Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Oxygen, Breathing

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