Quotes By 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.

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.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.