657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

The overseer of the unskilled peasants who dragged stone for the pyramids did not concern himself with morale or motivation,

Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.

The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike.