Peter Drucker

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

Peter Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

Peter Drucker

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

Peter Drucker

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

Peter Drucker

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Peter Drucker

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Peter Drucker

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Peter Drucker

A crisis that recurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur again.

Peter Drucker

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Peter Drucker

A manager sets objectives – A manager organizes – A manager motivates and communicates – A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures – A manager develops people.

Peter Drucker