657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation is to work twice as hard instead of saying, "We have accomplished our objectives, we have to think again."

First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.