If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are… — 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
