Peter Drucker

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Peter Drucker

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Peter Drucker

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Peter Drucker

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.

Peter Drucker

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

Peter Drucker

It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

Peter Drucker

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Peter Drucker

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Peter Drucker

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

Peter Drucker

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Peter Drucker