As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. — 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
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. — 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
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two… — 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
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific… — 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… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is… — 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
Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most… — 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 great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that… — 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
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the… — 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
It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed… — 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
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked… — 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
