Peter Drucker

Who was Peter Drucker?

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, and he invented the concept known as management by objectives.

Famous Quotes:

• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
• The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
• The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
• Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
• Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
• What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
• Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
• 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.