657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

You can't manage what you don't measure.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.