657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work