About Peter Drucker

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

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More from Peter Drucker

• 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)
• A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

More quotes on sales and persuasion

• People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.Blaise Pascal
• You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.Steve Jobs
• Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.Henry Ford
• The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.David Ogilvy
• When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.David Ogilvy
• Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC.David Ogilvy

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