657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

Our society has become an employee society.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.