Quotes by Peter Drucker

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.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you dont.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

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

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

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.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.