November 19 Quotes

71 quotes in this collection

"Most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question."

-- Peter Drucker

"Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems."

-- Peter Drucker

"Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights."

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

"Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation."

-- Peter Drucker

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it."

-- Peter Drucker

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product fits him and sells itself."

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

"People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete."

-- Peter Drucker

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

-- Peter Drucker

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship."

-- Peter Drucker

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

-- Peter Drucker

"What gets measured gets managed."

-- Peter Drucker

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker

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

-- Peter Drucker
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