Peter Drucker Quotes
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
Show MoreChecking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths ar...
Show MoreMy greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ...
Show MoreThe most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
The only way to predict the future is to create it
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights whi...
Show MoreThe entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expect...
Show MorePeople often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what ...
Show MoreManagement by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results no...
Show MoreMost of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the mos...
Show MoreTime is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what...
Show MoreWhen a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
The computer is a moron.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical co...
Show MoreOne should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far mor...
Show MoreThe only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
