Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker

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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."

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

— Peter Drucker

Business

All Quotes by Peter Drucker

“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”

— Peter Drucker

Business

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

— Peter Drucker

Change

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

— Peter Drucker

Power

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

— Peter Drucker

Best

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

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

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

— Peter Drucker

Time

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

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

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

— Peter Drucker

Communication

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

— Peter Drucker

Work

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

— Peter Drucker

Business

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”

— Peter Drucker

Leadership

“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 Drucker

Future

“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

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

— Peter Drucker

Business

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

— Peter Drucker

Work

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

— Peter Drucker

Business

“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.”

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge

“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.”

— Peter Drucker

Leadership

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

— Peter Drucker

Leadership

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”

— Peter Drucker

Education