657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed.

Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.