Peter Drucker

Managers are action-focused; they are not philosophers and should not be.

Peter Drucker

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

Peter Drucker

Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Peter Drucker

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

Peter Drucker

Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer’s point of view.

Peter Drucker

Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Peter Drucker

Miracles are great, but they’re so damn unpredictable.

Peter Drucker

Morale in an organization does not mean that ‘people get along together’; the test is performance not conformance.

Peter Drucker

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Peter Drucker