657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.