657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Business is society's change agent.

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Results is all that separates one company from another.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.