657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.