quotes by Peter Drucker

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
— Peter Drucker (The Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society)

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
— Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict your future is to create it"
— Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
— Peter Drucker

"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes"
— Peter Drucker

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."
— Peter Drucker

"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."
— Peter Drucker

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
— Peter Drucker

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
— Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
— Peter Drucker

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."
— Peter Drucker

"There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all."
— Peter Drucker

"We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence."
— Peter Drucker

"What's measured improves"
— Peter Drucker

"People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are."
— Peter Drucker

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. "
— Peter Drucker

"The computer is a moron. "
— 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

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. "
— Peter Drucker

"Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. "
— Peter Drucker

"The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question."
— Peter Drucker

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

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
— Peter Drucker

"Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation."
— Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
— Peter Drucker

"A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all."
— 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

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
— Peter Drucker