Peter Drucker

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don’t know what I’m going to be when I grow up.

Peter Drucker

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word ‘guru’ only because ‘charlatan’ is too long to fit into a headline.

Peter Drucker

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

Peter Drucker

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Peter Drucker

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than ‘making deals.’ Management affects people and their lives.

Peter Drucker

I’m a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don’t even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

Peter Drucker

I’m better about things than about people. I’m more interested in people, but I’m better at ideas.

Peter Drucker

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Peter Drucker

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn’t have stood up.

Peter Drucker

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on ‘human relations’ the group is probably too large.

Peter Drucker