Peter Drucker

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

Peter Drucker

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Peter Drucker

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

Peter Drucker

The incongruity between perceived and actual reality typically characterizes a whole industry or a whole service area. The solution, however, should again be small and simple, focused and highly specific.

Peter Drucker

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

Peter Drucker

The knowledge worker is not poverty-prone. He is in danger of alienation, to use the fashionable word for boredom, frustration, and silent despair.

Peter Drucker

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

Peter Drucker

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

Peter Drucker

The most probable assumption is that no currently working ‘business theory’ will be valid 10 years hence.

Peter Drucker

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Peter Drucker