Important Quotes by Peter Drucker

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

— 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

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become…

— Peter Drucker

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am…

— Peter Drucker

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . .…

— 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

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and…

— Peter Drucker

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

— 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

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of…

— 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 postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled…

— Peter Drucker

An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded…

— Peter Drucker

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

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity…

— Peter Drucker

An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are…

— Peter Drucker

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

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

— Peter Drucker

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

— Peter Drucker

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

— Peter Drucker