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
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
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
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything. — 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
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
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
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
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
As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop… — 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
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
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
An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.' — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed. — 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
The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their… — 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
