The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity — 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
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing. — 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
