Peter Drucker Quotes
Browse 26 quotes from Peter Drucker, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it sells.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
“Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.”
“Do first things first, and second things not at all.”
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”
“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves, their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“Innovate or die.”
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.”
“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
“What gets measured gets managed.”
“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.”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“There is nothing quite as useless as doing with great efficiency something you shouldn't be doing at all.”
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it.”
