The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker” — Peter Drucker Copy Share
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
