Peter Drucker

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

Peter Drucker

An incongruity is a discrepancy, a dissonance, between what is and what ‘ought’ to be, or between what is and what everybody assumes it to be.

Peter Drucker

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

Peter Drucker

As a manager you’re paid to be uncomfortable. If you’re comfortable, it’s a sure sign you’re doing things wrong.

Peter Drucker

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

Peter Drucker

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Peter Drucker

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Peter Drucker

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Peter Drucker

But above all, meetings have to be the exception rather than the rule. An organization in which everybody meets all the time is an organization in which no one gets anything done.

Peter Drucker

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Peter Drucker