What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion. — 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
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
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — 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