Quotes from Peter Drucker
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
- Peter Drucker
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
- Peter Drucker
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.
- Peter 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 Drucker
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.
- Peter Drucker
An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
- Peter Drucker
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
- Peter Drucker
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
- Peter Drucker
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
- Peter Drucker
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- Peter Drucker
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
- Peter Drucker
Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.
- Peter Drucker