Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them. — 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's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve? — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out… — 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
Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility. — 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
People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.' — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me? — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — 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