Peter Drucker > Quotes

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Peter Drucker, The Executive in Action

“What gets measured, gets managed”
― Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
― Peter Drucker

“The best plan is only good intentions unless it degenerates into work”
― Peter Drucker

“Courage rather than analysis dictates the truly important rules for identifying priorities:

Pick the future as against the past;

Focus on opportunity rather than on problem;

Choose your own direction - rather than climb on the bandwagon; and

Aim high, aim for something that will make a difference, rather than for something that is “safe” and easy to do.”
― Peter Drucker, EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker

“Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.”
― Peter Drucker

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
― Peter Drucker

“One of the secrets of productivity (in which I believe whereas I do not believe in creativity) is to have a VERY BIG waste paper basket to take care of ALL invitations such as yours. Productivity in my experience consists of NOT doing anything that helps the work of other people but to spend all one’s time on the work the Good Lord has fitted one to do, and to do well.”
― Peter Drucker

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.”
― Peter Drucker

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.”
― Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive

“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. . . And yet, a person can perform only from strength.”
― Peter Drucker

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker, EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE