657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society--its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.