657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.