Peter Drucker Quotes

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

By Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

By Peter Drucker

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

By Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

By Peter Drucker

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

By Peter Drucker

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

By Peter Drucker

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

By Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

By Peter Drucker

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

By Peter Drucker

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

By Peter Drucker

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

By Peter Drucker

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

By Peter Drucker

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

By Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

By Peter Drucker

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.

By Peter Drucker

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

By Peter Drucker

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

By Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.

By Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

By Peter Drucker

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

By Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

By Peter Drucker