Peter Drucker Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Peter Drucker quotes, Peter Drucker sayings, and Peter Drucker proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious. Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Peter Drucker
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. Peter Drucker
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. Peter Drucker
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. Peter Drucker
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. Peter Drucker
Communism is evil. its driving force are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Peter Drucker
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. Peter Drucker
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Peter Drucker
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. Peter Drucker
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Peter Drucker
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter Drucker
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous. Peter Drucker
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. Peter Drucker
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never says 'I'.  And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I.'  They don't think 'I.'  They think 'we'; they think 'team.'  They understand their job is to make the team function.  They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit....  This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. Peter Drucker
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. Peter Drucker
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. Peter Drucker
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer. Peter Drucker
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. Peter Drucker
Morale in an organization does not mean that a people get along together; the test is performance not conformance. Peter Drucker