Quotes by Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

Hope

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

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Education

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

— Peter Drucker

Education

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

— Peter Drucker

Success

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Success

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

Education

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

Hope

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

— Peter Drucker

Success

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

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

— Peter Drucker

Education

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

— Peter Drucker

Wisdom

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

— Peter Drucker

Hope

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

— Peter Drucker

Hope