Peter Drucker Quotes

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement... view

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... view

By: Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it... view

By: Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron... view

By: Peter Drucker

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity... view

By: Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said... view

By: Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different... view

By: Peter Drucker

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

By: Peter Drucker

The purpose of a business is to create a customer... view

By: Peter Drucker

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach... view

By: Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed... view

By: Peter Drucker

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product... view

By: 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... view

By: Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans... view

By: Peter Drucker

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information... view

By: 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... view

By: Peter Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course... view

By: Peter Drucker

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all... view

By: Peter Drucker

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth... view

By: Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing things right.. view

By: Peter Drucker

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

By: Peter Drucker

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications... view

By: Peter Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action... view

By: Peter Drucker

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands... view

By: Peter Drucker

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes... view

By: Peter Drucker

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level... view

By: Peter Drucker

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't... view

By: Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right.. view

By: Peter Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake... view

By: Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions... view

By: Peter Drucker

Never mind your happiness.. view

By: Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work... view

By: Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings... view

By: 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... view

By: Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work... view

By: Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility... view

By: Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done... view

By: 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.'.. view

By: Peter Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got... view

By: Peter Drucker

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money... view

By: Peter Drucker

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer... view

By: Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information... view

By: Peter Drucker