About Peter Drucker

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

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• 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

• Any one can get angry, that is easy... but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.Aristotle
• The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.Plato
• The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius
• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
• 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

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