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
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — 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
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game.… — 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
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are… — 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
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am… — 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
