Peter F. Drucker: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

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

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”

“"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.”

“Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.”

“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”

“Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.”

“Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp. It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.”

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

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

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

“What's measured improves”

“Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”