All Peter Drucker Quotes
- To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. Communication
- The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a… Better
- The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. Adapting
- Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable. Damn
- Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities. Opportunities
- The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed. Anything Else
- Objectives are not commands; they are commitments. Command
- An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation. Builds
- Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business. Business
- Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship. Death
- As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. Analyze
- Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is. Absolute
- Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Communism
- A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. Ahead
- A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. Almost Irresistible
- Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along togetherâ€; the test is performance not conformance. Along
- Profit is not a cause but a result- Cause
- It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all. All
- Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government Accepted
- We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them. Contain