Peter Drucker nejznámější citáty
Peter Drucker: Citáty o podnikání
„Podnikání není ani věda, ani umění. Je to praxe.“
Varianta: Podnikání není ani věda, ani umění. Je to praktická zkušenost.
„Základem podnikání je zákazník, díky kterému současně existuje. On sám dává zaměstnání.“
Originál: (en) The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence. He alone gives employment.
Peter Drucker citáty a výroky
„Nejdůležitější věci v komunikaci je slyšet, co nebylo řečeno nahlas.“
Varianta: To nejdůležitější v komunikaci je slyšet to, co nebylo řečeno.
Originál: (en) …, a company's CEO should make no more than 20 times the salary of its lowest-paid worker.
„Když něco nemůžete změřit, nemůžete to ani řídit.“
Tento citát slyšel zajisté téměř každý, kdo za sebou má studium ekonomie. V rámci podnikového vedení manifestoval tento výrok úspěšný postup hospodářských jednotek, které musí býti založeny na měřitelných faktech.
Originál: (en) If you can´t measure it, you can´t manage it.
Peter Drucker: Citáty anglicky

Zdroj: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 387
Zdroj: 1930s- 1950s, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959), p. 258
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 317
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 343
Zdroj: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 139
“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.”
Zdroj: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37
Varianta: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Adventures of a Bystander (1979) (Autobiography)
1960s - 1980s
I got my degree through E-mail http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0616/5912084a.html, Forbes (June 16, 1997)
1990s and later
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Misattributed
Varianta: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Zdroj: The Essential Drucker
Zdroj: Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices
“"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.”
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 185
Zdroj: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 7
Drucker cited in: William White (1981) Library journal. Volume 106, Nr 1-12. p. 1048
1960s - 1980s
“The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.”
Zdroj: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 93, cited in Henry Mintzberg (2005) Managers Not MBAs (2005). p. 10
“There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.”
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 681
“Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.”
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 761
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 465
“One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.”
Zdroj: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 475