Peter Drucker

22 quotes

"So far the main impact of the computer has been the creation of unlimited employment opportunities for clerks."

Peter Drucker

"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."

Peter Drucker

"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where his next meal would come from."

Peter Drucker

"The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives."

Peter Drucker

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."

Peter Drucker

"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast."

Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes ... but no plans."

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

Peter Drucker

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes ... but no plans."

Peter Drucker

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."

Peter Drucker

"So far the main impact of the computer has been the creation of unlimited employment opportunities for clerks."

Peter Drucker

"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where his next meal would come from."

Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

"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."

Peter Drucker

"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast."

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

"The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives."

Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker