657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.