657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.