532 Quotes by Peter F. Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.