We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three… — 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
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — 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 Image
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker” — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 Image
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 Image
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
