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Peter Drucker Quotes

Read Peter Drucker Quotes to Learn Why He Is the Father of Management Education

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In many ways, business schools owe their existence to Peter Drucker, the founding father of management. I see Peter Drucker as a philosopher who studied management as a science. He formulated management concepts, including management by objectives or MBO. Peter Drucker explained management theory and principles with the help of extensive research and threw light on many unknown aspects of business management.

Business
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Teamwork
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

Integrity
It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

Leadership
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Business
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Business
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Business
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Business
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Achievements
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.

Business
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

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