Top 15 Peter Drucker Quotes

American business consultant (1909–2005)

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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19 1909 – November 11 2005) was an Austrian-born American writer, management consultant and university professor. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He taught at New York University and Claremont Graduate University respectively.

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."

What's measured improves

Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.