About Peter Drucker

Austrian American writer widely called the founder of modern management. (1909-2005)

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More from Peter Drucker

• There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.The Practice of Management (1954)
• The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
• The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
• Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
• The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

More quotes on leadership

• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him.Lao Tzu
• Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.Lao Tzu
• When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.Seneca
• If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.Marcus Aurelius
• To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.Sun Tzu
• He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.Sun Tzu

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