Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve? — 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
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where… — 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
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business… — 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
Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing… — 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
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
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
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker” — Peter Drucker Copy Share
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
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share
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
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
