Peter Drucker Quotes
What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.
Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.
What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.
Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.
"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
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.
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.