Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing. — 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
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it. — 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
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