657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

What's measured improves

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Management is about doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Each [co-worker] works his or her way, not your way. And each is entitled to work in his or her way. What matters is whether they perform and what their values are. As far as how they perform--each is likely to do it differently. The first secret to effectiveness is to understand the people you work with and depend on so that you can make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values. Working relationships are as much based on the people as they are on the work.

People are effective because they say no.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.