Knows Quotes by Peter Drucker

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use…

— Peter Drucker

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

— Peter Drucker

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

— Peter Drucker

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person…

— Peter Drucker

If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.

— Peter Drucker

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from…

— Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

— Peter Drucker

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

— Peter Drucker

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must…

— Peter Drucker

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you…

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it…

— Peter Drucker

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive…

— Peter Drucker

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

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the…

— Peter Drucker

What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely…

— Peter Drucker

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or…

— Peter Drucker

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance…

— Peter Drucker

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work,…

— Peter Drucker

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any…

— Peter Drucker

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or…

— Peter Drucker

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...…

— Peter Drucker

To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can…

— Peter Drucker

Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on…

— Peter Drucker

Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that…

— Peter Drucker

The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

— Peter Drucker

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who…

— Peter Drucker