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