657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

One either meets or one works.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.