"There's an enormous number of managers who..." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”

“I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.”

“The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.”

“The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.”

“The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'”

“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”

“The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.”

“The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.”