Peter Drucker Quotes



       “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “The best way to predict your future is to create it” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ” 
- Peter F. 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 F. Drucker

        “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.” 
- Peter F. Drucker


        “A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. ” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “The computer is a moron. ” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

       “Effectiveness must be learned.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

        “Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.” 
- Peter F. Drucker,

       “Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker


        “Entrepreneurship is "risky" mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.” 
- Peter F. Drucker

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


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


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


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


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


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

       “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker


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


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