The 53 Best Peter Drucker Phrases [with Pictures]

I leave you the best Peter Drucker quotes (1909-2005), considered the father of management today, a great influencer in business administration and the author of more than 35 books. Among his books stand out The effective executive (1966), The management (1973), Innovation and the innovative entrepreneur (2000), among others.

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-The most important thing in communication is to listen to what is not said.

-Earning a living is not enough, work also has to make a living.

-The problem in my life and that of other people is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.

-Doing the right thing is more important than doing something right.

-The purpose of a business is to create and maintain a customer.

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

-The goal of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits them and sells itself.

-Today knowledge has power. Control access to opportunities and advancements.

-There is nothing as useless as doing something with great efficiency that shouldn't have been done at all..

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

-Nobody learns as much from a subject as someone who is forced to learn it.

-The result of good business is a satisfied customer.

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

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

-Most of what we call management is making it difficult for people to do their jobs.

-Wherever you see a successful business, someone has made a brave decision.

-Labor productivity is not the responsibility of the worker, but of the boss.

-Strategy is comfort, execution is an art.

-What gets measured gets improved.

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

-Your first and most important job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help orchestrate the energy of those around you..

-Company cultures are like country cultures. Don't try to change them. Instead, try to work with what you have.

-Businesses have only two functions: marketing and innovation.

-The most serious mistakes are those made as a result of wrong answers. The real danger is asking the wrong questions.

-Efficiency is doing things well; effectiveness is doing the right things.

-Results are achieved by exploiting opportunities, not solving problems.

-Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. 90% of the time you don't know.

-The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

-Innovating is finding new or better uses for the resources we already have..

-Rank does not confer privilege or empowerment. Imposes responsibility.

-Creativity is the result of hard and systematic work.

-People who don't take risks usually make two big mistakes a year. People who take risks usually make two big mistakes a year..

-Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurship.

-Efficiency must be learned.

-The purpose of a business is to create a business.

-It is more productive to turn an opportunity into results than to solve a problem, which only restores yesterday's balance.

-What motivates knowledge workers is the same as what motivates volunteers; they need, above all, challenges.

-Making good decisions is a crucial skill at all levels.

-My great strength as a consultant is being ignorant and asking a few questions.

-A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

-People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete; to things that should have worked but don't; to things that were once productive and are no longer productive.

-The entrepreneur always seeks change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity.

-The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But a wrong structure is a guarantee of failure.

-Accept the fact that we have to treat almost everyone as a volunteer.

-Free enterprise cannot be justified solely by being good business. It can only be justified because it is good for society.

-It does not matter whether the worker wants to be responsible or not. The company must demand it.

-No institution can survive if it needs geniuses or a superman to run it. It must be organized in such a way that it is able to go well with a leadership made up of normal human beings..

-We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping up with change. And the most urgent task is to teach people how to learn.

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

-Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the rear window..

-The new information technology, the internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communication.