“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Knowledge
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by Peter Drucker
“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.”
Knowledge“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
Business“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
Work“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.”
Teacher“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
Education“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.”
Leadership“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
Power“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“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.”
Future“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.”
Future“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
Knowledge“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
Business“The computer is a moron.”
Computers“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
Leadership“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Work“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“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
Business“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Business“The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”
Computers