Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker

33 quotes

Peter Drucker is an American management consultant and author whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Celebrated for management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the champion of management as a serious discipline", Peter Drucker brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. Our collection holds 45 quotes from Peter Drucker, each offering a different angle on Work, Leadership, Business, Knowledge, and Power. Consider this gem from Peter Drucker: "The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

“

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

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

All Quotes by Peter Drucker

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

— Peter Drucker

Leadership

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

— Peter Drucker

Business

“The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”

— Peter Drucker

Computers

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

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

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

— Peter Drucker

Communication

“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.”

— Peter Drucker

Teacher

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

— Peter Drucker

Good

“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”

— Peter Drucker

Leadership

“Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.”

— Peter Drucker

Leadership

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

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

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

— Peter Drucker

Time

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

— Peter Drucker

Business

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

— Peter Drucker

Business

“Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'”

— Peter Drucker

Computers

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

— Peter Drucker

Best

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

— Peter Drucker

Future

“The computer is a moron.”

— Peter Drucker

Computers

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

— Peter Drucker

Change

“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.”

— Peter Drucker

Power

“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”

— Peter Drucker

Happiness