532 Quotes by Peter F. Drucker

Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.