Peter Drucker

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

— Peter Drucker

[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.

— Peter Drucker

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

— Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

— Peter Drucker

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

— Peter Drucker

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

— Peter Drucker

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

— Peter Drucker

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

— Peter Drucker

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker”

— Peter Drucker

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

— Peter Drucker

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

— Peter Drucker

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

— Peter Drucker

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of…

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

— 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

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West.…

— 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

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on…

— Peter Drucker

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to…

— Peter Drucker

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never…

— Peter Drucker

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of…

— Peter Drucker

“The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

— Peter Drucker

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

— Peter Drucker

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

— Peter Drucker

You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.

— Peter Drucker

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

— Peter Drucker

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

— Peter Drucker

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

— Peter Drucker

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

— Peter Drucker

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

— Peter Drucker

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

— Peter Drucker

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

— Peter Drucker

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

— Peter Drucker