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
You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — 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
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
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social… — 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
I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between… — 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
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
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities. — 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
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
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
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