Years Quotes by Peter Drucker

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

— Peter Drucker

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

— Peter Drucker

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

— Peter Drucker

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

— Peter Drucker

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive…

— Peter Drucker

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

— Peter Drucker

Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What…

— Peter Drucker

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

— Peter Drucker

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of…

— Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees…

— Peter Drucker

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of…

— Peter Drucker

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can…

— Peter Drucker

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

Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and…

— Peter Drucker

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were…

— Peter Drucker

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its…

— Peter Drucker

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that…

— Peter Drucker

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the…

— Peter Drucker

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years…

— Peter Drucker

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its…

— Peter Drucker

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit…

— Peter Drucker

The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations…

— Peter Drucker

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later…

— Peter Drucker

The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three…

— Peter Drucker