657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

Business has only two functions marketing and innovation.

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.