Peter Drucker quotes

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. (Peter Drucker)
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker
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 Drucker
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter Drucker
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.
Peter Drucker
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
A business exists to create a customer. (Peter Drucker)
The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
Peter Drucker
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
Peter Drucker