657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

His great strength was not his charisma, as many commonly thought, but that he knew exactly what he could do and what he could not do.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.