Peter F. Drucker
30 quotations
Decision making is the specific executive task.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.