Peter F. Drucker Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

18 Famous Quotes by Peter F. Drucker
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“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”
Quality Quotes
“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.”
Commitment Quotes
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
Efficiency Quotes
“Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight”
Foresight Quotes
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
Innovation Quotes
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Management Quotes
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
Management Quotes
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work”
Management Quotes
“It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
Planning Quotes
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
Reflection Quotes
“Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Leadership Quotes
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
Education Quotes
“The computer is a moron.”
Computers Quotes
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
Committment Quotes
“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”
Efficiency Quotes
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Mediocrity Quotes
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Business Quotes
“Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.”
Leadership Quotes