People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.Peter Drucker
The only way to predict the future is to create itPeter Drucker
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.Peter Drucker
One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.Peter Drucker
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.Peter Drucker
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.Peter Drucker
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.Peter Drucker
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.Peter Drucker
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.Peter Drucker
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.Peter Drucker
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.Peter Drucker
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucker
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.Peter Drucker
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.Peter Drucker
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.Peter Drucker
The computer is a moron.Peter Drucker
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'Peter Drucker
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.Peter Drucker
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.Peter Drucker
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.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.Peter Drucker
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.Peter Drucker
Never mind your happiness do your duty.Peter Drucker
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.Peter Drucker
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.Peter Drucker
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.Peter Drucker
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.Peter Drucker
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.Peter Drucker
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.Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.Peter Drucker
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.Peter Drucker
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.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
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.Peter Drucker