Peter Drucker Quotes About Work

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  • Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

  • No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

    Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.59, Harvard Business Review Press
  • A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

    Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.40, Routledge
  • One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

    "New Priorities" by Peter Drucker, www.context.org. Summer 1992.
  • Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

    Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.129, Transaction Publishers
  • To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

    Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.170, Routledge
  • The computer is a moron.

  • The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

    Peter F. Drucker (2014). “The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management”, p.65, Harper Collins
  • Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  • The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

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

    Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.15, Routledge
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