657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Successful innovators are..not risk-focused; they are opportunity focused.

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)

The computer is a moron.