Peter Drucker Quotes

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Our objective today is to get the greatest amount of work out of every individual.

More efficient workers are always in an employer's best interest.

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

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

The work is getting the work.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

The problem with trying to measure productivity is that it measures only how well people can do the wrong jobs. Any job that can be measured for productivity probably should be eliminated from the list of jobs that people do.

Human emotion and reaction is the primary block to productivity.

When men are employed, they are best contented.

I worked in a Starbucks that wasn't very popular - before the big coffee boom in London. My boss didn't take kindly to my incessant sitting. I was like, 'Look, I've dusted everything, the stockroom is all figured out... I would rather sit now so I have the energy when a customer does come in.'

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.