657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Because its purpose is to create a customer, your business has two purposes and two purposes only: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation make you money, generate sales, produce profit. Everything else is an expense...

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.