Peter Drucker

It’s amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

Peter Drucker

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.

Peter Drucker

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Peter Drucker

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Peter Drucker

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one – except warfare – achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

Peter Drucker

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

Peter Drucker

Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.

Peter Drucker

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker