Quotes from Peter Drucker
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.
- Peter Drucker
In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge
- Peter Drucker
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
- Peter Drucker
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
- Peter Drucker
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
- Peter Drucker
Leaders grow; they are not made.
- Peter Drucker
Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .
- Peter Drucker
Leadership is all about getting results.
- Peter Drucker
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.
- Peter Drucker
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
- Peter Drucker
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.
- Peter Drucker
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
- Peter Drucker