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Peter Drucker

November 19 , 1909 – November 11 , 2005

Peter Drucker was an Austrian-American consultant, author. Their words on leadership, courage and responsibility are still quoted by those looking for strength and direction.

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"The best way to predict the future is to create it. Such is the mindset required to build a massive enterprise."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. Such is the mindset required to build a massive enterprise."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. This powerful statement captures the ethos of free enterprise."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. This powerful statement captures the ethos of free enterprise."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. Such is the perspective of a true industry pioneer."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. Such is the perspective of a true industry pioneer."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. A practical insight into maintaining momentum under extreme pressure."

-- Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it. A practical insight into maintaining momentum under extreme pressure."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. This remains a fundamental principle of modern commerce."

-- Peter Drucker

"The spirit of performance is not a machine. It is a vision."

-- Peter Drucker

"The spirit of performance is not a machine. It is a vision."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

-- Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management by objective works if you first think through your objectives."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management by objective works if you first think through your objectives."

-- Peter Drucker

"Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."

-- Peter Drucker

"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."

-- Peter Drucker

"The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."

-- Peter Drucker

"The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."

-- Peter Drucker

"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."

-- Peter Drucker

"People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs."

-- Peter Drucker

"People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs."

-- Peter Drucker

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make."

-- Peter Drucker

"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make."

-- Peter Drucker

"The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question."

-- Peter Drucker

"The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question."

-- Peter Drucker

"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent."

-- Peter Drucker

"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent."

-- Peter Drucker

"There are no results inside the organization. All the results are outside."

-- Peter Drucker

"There are no results inside the organization. All the results are outside."

-- Peter Drucker

"Objectives are not fate; they are direction."

-- Peter Drucker

"Objectives are not fate; they are direction."

-- Peter Drucker

"The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action."

-- Peter Drucker

"The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action."

-- Peter Drucker

"Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to rethink the strategy, execution will continue to be disappointing."

-- Peter Drucker

"Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to rethink the strategy, execution will continue to be disappointing."

-- Peter Drucker

"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."

-- Peter Drucker

"Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art."

-- Peter Drucker

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

-- Peter Drucker

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management is about human beings."

-- Peter Drucker

"Management is about human beings."

-- Peter Drucker

"Communication is what the listener does."

-- Peter Drucker

"Communication is what the listener does."

-- Peter Drucker

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Peter Drucker was an Austrian-American consultant, author. Their words on leadership, courage and responsibility are still quoted by those looking for strength and direction.

What is Peter Drucker's most famous quote? +

One of Peter Drucker's most widely shared quotes is: "The computer is a moron.".

What did Peter Drucker say about leadership? +

On leadership, Peter Drucker said: "The best way to predict the future is to create it.".

What did Peter Drucker say about business? +

On business, Peter Drucker said: "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.".

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Peter Drucker's quotes endure because they turn ideas about Leadership, Business, Success, Creativity into clear, memorable language that is easy to relate to and share.

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