True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the… — 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
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — 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
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way… — 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
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are… — 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
