Create Yours

Top 500 Peter F. Drucker Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 4 of 10

Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions – rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, “What business am I in?” Second, “How’s business?””
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The days of the ‘intuitive’ manager are numbered.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Universities won’t survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “As a manager you’re paid to be uncomfortable. If you’re comfortable, it’s a sure sign you’re doing things wrong.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “An effective executive builds on strengths – their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “We’ve spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we’ll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation – and a risk.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Most leaders don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it’s dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Strong people have strong weaknesses.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The key to greatness is to look for people’s potential and spend time developing it.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “The fruit of your work grows on other people’s trees.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers – because without trust, they won’t fight.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Business is society’s change agent.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.”
Peter F. Drucker Quote: “Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.”
PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NEXT
Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Startup Quotes
Success Quotes
Focus Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Leadership Quotes
Quotes About Strength
Integrity Quotes
Business Quotes
Time Quotes
Strong Quotes

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 500 Peter F. Drucker Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Learn more