Peter Drucker Quotes
- There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
- Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
- One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with…
- What gets measured gets managed.
- The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
- Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.…
- Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
- The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is…
- Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
- Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
- Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.
- Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
- Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
- Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.
- The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
- What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another…
- During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed…
- Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.…
- The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
- Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.