“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
Business
“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.”
FutureAll Quotes by Peter Drucker
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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.”
Leadership“Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.”
Leadership“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.”
Strength“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.”
Change“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
Business“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
Power“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
Education“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Best“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
Knowledge“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.'”
Computers“The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”
Computers“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”
Happiness“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
Work“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
Knowledge“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Business“The computer is a moron.”
Computers“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
Good“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
Leadership