Quotes By Peter Drucker

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

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

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

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.

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.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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.

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