Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Peter Drucker

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

Peter Drucker

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Peter Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Peter Drucker

Mother Teresa’s numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Peter Drucker

Never ask who’s right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Peter Drucker