Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred..
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society….
The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not ….
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society….
There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, h….
An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform..
People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive ….
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable..
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New T….
I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the eco….
Working with people is difficult, but not impossible..
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long….
To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business..
Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity..
All good strategy eventually degenerates into work..
This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the major….
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in soci….
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter..
Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, t….
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the org….