657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.