657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.