Quotes by Peter Drucker

“People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.”

“The only way to predict the future is to create it”

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isnt said.”

“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-...”

“The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”

“The computer is a moron.”

“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...”

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

“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 ...”

“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 don't.”

“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...”

“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.”

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