657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.

It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

Management has authority only as long as it performs.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

Decisions exist only in the present.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.