Peter Drucker Quotes

592 quotes · Management Consultant, Author

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Peter Drucker Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Motivated Determined Courageous 592 quotes · page 29 of 50

Peter Drucker

Management Consultant, Author

Wise

“Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.”

Believe What Matters Cash Flow

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Peter Drucker

Management Consultant, Author

Courageous

“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

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Angry

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

People Ideas Business

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Sad

“Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.”

Action Happens

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Sad

“The fault is in the system and not in the men.”

Men Faults

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Wise

“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.”

Men Teacher Teaching

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Philosophical

“Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.”

People Play Teamwork

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Philosophical

“Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.”

Years Attitude Strength

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Philosophical

“That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.”

Our Society Resources Capitalist

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Wise

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

Years Europe Top Management

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Wise

“Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.”

Thinking Writing Cutting

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Philosophical

“We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .”

Country Law Suffering

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