532 Quotes by Peter F. Drucker

There’s nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Quality of character doesn’t make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education – or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments – is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.