657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

We always remember best the irrelevant.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.