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“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal… The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers… by international action to ban such powers.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959), p. 258

“And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 317

“The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 343

“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 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.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37

“The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 387

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”

Peter F. Drucker

Adventures of a Bystander (1979) (Autobiography)
1960s - 1980s

“Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.”

Peter F. Drucker book Effective Executive

The Effective Executive (1966)
1960s - 1980s

“There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 681

“The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 93, cited in Henry Mintzberg (2005) Managers Not MBAs (2005). p. 10

“Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations; most computer users have found that they now need more, and more expensive clerks, even though they call them "operators" or "programmers.”

Peter F. Drucker

Drucker cited in: William White (1981) Library journal. Volume 106, Nr 1-12. p. 1048
1960s - 1980s

“As for the explanation that fascism is a last desperate attempt of capitalism to delay the socialist revolution, it simply is not true. It is not true that ‘big business’ promoted fascism. On the contrary, both in Italy and in Germany the proportion of fascist sympathizers and backers was smallest in the industrial and financial classes. It is equally untrue that ‘big business’ profits from fascism; of all the classes it probably suffers most from totalitarian economics and Wehrwirtschaft.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 7

“The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

Peter F. Drucker

“The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 380