Liberty vs Tyranny


Peter Drucker Quotes

Peter Ferdinand Drucker - writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.”
Individual Economic Liberty



"Decisions exist only in the present."

"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

"We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them."

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

"Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred."

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

"There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer."

"Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless."

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

"Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution."

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."

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

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."

"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"

"The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community."

"An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"--he owes performance and nothing else."

"Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Liberty-vs-Tyranny.com/

 

 

 

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