All Peter Drucker Quotes
- It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work… Carve
- Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise Business
- The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant. Alignment
- There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost. Business
- In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate. Action
- As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written… Ability
- 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. Business
- The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will… Assets
- Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity Business
- Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. Criteria
- The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it. Developing
- There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any… Any
- An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it… Alienating
- Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of… Business
- Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they… Alone
- Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization… All
- Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop. Inspirational
- Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use… Capital
- Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them. Confine
- Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and… Abandon