Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. — 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
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
Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will… — 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
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
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in… — 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
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is… — 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
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — 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
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they 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
