Peter Drucker Quotes
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
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Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
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Once a year ask the boss, 'What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?' and 'What do I or my people do that hampers you?'
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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
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Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
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Decisions exist only in the present.
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The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
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Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: 'I know what Anne or John is trying to do.'
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The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
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All economic activity is by definition 'high risk.' And defending yesterday-that is, not innovating-is far more risky than making tomorrow.
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Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
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Financial 'synergy' is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
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To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
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The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
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That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society 'post-capitalist.