Peter Drucker Quotes

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

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 year.

Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker

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.

Peter Drucker

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

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 to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Peter Drucker

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 how to learn.

Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Peter Drucker

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 performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peter Drucker