Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker


Peter Drucker -
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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

Peter Drucker -
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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

Peter Drucker -
- The computer is a moron.