657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.