Decision Quotes by Peter Drucker

Decisions exist only in the present.

— Peter Drucker

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

— Peter Drucker

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

— Peter Drucker

Decision making is the specific executive task.

— Peter Drucker

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

— Peter Drucker

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

— Peter Drucker

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

— Peter Drucker

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

— Peter Drucker

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

— Peter Drucker

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

— Peter Drucker

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

— Peter Drucker

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

— Peter Drucker

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

— Peter Drucker

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making…

— 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

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a…

— Peter Drucker

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart…

— Peter Drucker

Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of…

— Peter Drucker

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based…

— Peter Drucker

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where…

— Peter Drucker

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were…

— Peter Drucker

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and…

— Peter Drucker

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing…

— Peter Drucker

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

— Peter Drucker

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

— Peter Drucker

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a…

— Peter Drucker

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

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have…

— Peter Drucker

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions,…

— Peter Drucker

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity…

— Peter Drucker