45 Quotes By Peter Drucker


The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker on best

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker on business

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker on business

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker on business

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker on business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker on business

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.
Peter Drucker on change

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker on change

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

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker on communication

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Peter Drucker on computers

The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker on computers

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 on computers

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker on education

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 on future

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker on future

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker on future

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker on good

Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Peter Drucker on happiness

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker on knowledge