Peter Drucker Quotes

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• Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by…
• In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important…
• The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
• No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
• To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
• Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
• Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to…
• The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make…
• The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is…
• In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
• Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
• It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
• Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
• The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how…
• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
• Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
• In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
• To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
• The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of…
• Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All…

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