Quotes by Peter F. Drucker

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

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

“The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.”

“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. ”

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "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." T...”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”

“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.”

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

“There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.”

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.”

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”

“Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.”

“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”