People Quotes by Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

The organization is, above all, social. It is people.

— Peter Drucker

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

— Peter Drucker

Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.

— Peter Drucker

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

— Peter Drucker

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

— Peter Drucker

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

— Peter Drucker

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

— Peter Drucker

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.

— Peter Drucker

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of…

— Peter Drucker

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from…

— Peter Drucker

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

— Peter Drucker

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they…

— Peter Drucker

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business,…

— Peter Drucker

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If…

— Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is…

— Peter Drucker

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific…

— Peter Drucker

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set…

— Peter Drucker

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people…

— Peter Drucker

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am…

— Peter Drucker

What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification.…

— Peter Drucker

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any…

— Peter Drucker

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most…

— Peter Drucker

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work,…

— Peter Drucker

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers…

— Peter Drucker

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the…

— Peter Drucker

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that…

— Peter Drucker

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the…

— Peter Drucker

To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can…

— Peter Drucker

People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.

— Peter Drucker

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

— Peter Drucker

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

— Peter Drucker

People learn the most when teaching others.

— Peter Drucker

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

— Peter Drucker

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

— Peter Drucker

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter Drucker

Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance.

— Peter Drucker