Peter Drucker Quotes
Browse 26 quotes from Peter Drucker, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”
“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves, their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.”
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
“What gets measured gets managed.”
“If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
“Do first things first, and second things not at all.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“Effective executives do not start with their tasks. They start with their time.”
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.”
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it.”
“Innovate or die.”
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”
“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.”
“The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it sells.”
