All Peter Drucker Quotes
- Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Better
- Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team… Crucial
- Do first things first, and second things not at all. All
- I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy. All
- The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. Entertains
- The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. Cocktails
- You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable. Action
- Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. College
- So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Bosses
- A business exists to create a customer Business
- It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. Decision
- Manage yourself and then your company. Company
- 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
- Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.… Analysis