"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself." - Peter Drucker
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"The computer is a moron." - Peter Drucker
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker
"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different." - Peter Drucker
"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager." - Peter Drucker
"The purpose of a business is to create a customer." - Peter Drucker
"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job." - Peter Drucker
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed." - Peter Drucker
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement." - Peter Drucker
"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." - Peter Drucker
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." - Peter Drucker
"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information." - Peter Drucker
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn." - Peter Drucker
"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course." - Peter Drucker
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List of publications
- Friedrich Julius Stahl: konservative Staatslehre und geschichtliche Entwicklung (1932)
- (1939)
- (1942)
- (1945) (A study of General Motors)
- The New Society (1950)
- (1954)
- America's Next 20 Years (1957)
- Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
- Power and Democracy in America (1961)
- Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions [] (1964)
- (1966)
- (1968)
- Technology, Management and Society (1970)
- Men, Ideas and Politics (1971)
- (1973)
- The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America (1976)
- An Introductory View of Management (1977)
- (1979) (Autobiography)
- Song of the Brush: Japanese Painting from the Sanso Collection (1979)
- (1980)
- Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays (1981)
- The Changing World of the Executive (1982)
- The Temptation to Do Good (1984)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (1985)
- Harvard Business Review 1985 (PDF Download)
- (1986)
- (1989)
- (1990)
- : The 1990s and Beyond (1992)
- The Post-Capitalist Society (1993)
- The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
- The Theory of the Business, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1994
- Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)
- Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue Between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi (1997)
- Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management (1998)
- (1999)
- Managing Oneself, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1999
- (2001)
- Leading in a Time of Change: What it Will Take to Lead Tomorrow (2001; with Peter Senge)
- , Revised (2002)
- They're Not Employees, They're People, Harvard Business Review, February 2002
- (2002)
- A Functioning Society (2003)
- (2004)
- What Makes An Effective Executive, Harvard Business Review, June 2004.
- (2005)
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Peter Drucker was an influential business author, strategist, and consultant. His ideas on management, operating large corporations, and leadership have been published in more than thirty books. He was known throughout the business-world as the "father of modern management".
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