Peter Drucker Quotes
- The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. Body Language
- The best way to predict the future is to create it. Bad Day
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Business
- The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Aim
- Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Challenge
- Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. Accomplishment
- Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. Business
- People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a… Big
- The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Always Searches
- No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be… Able
- We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people… Abreast
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Action
- Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. Assume
- Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and… Average
- Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Back Window
- A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Application
- Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Business
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. All
- Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Act
- My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Ask