Peter F. Drucker quotes and words of wisdom

"The computer is a moron."
Found in the topic Computer.

"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."
Found in the topic Job.

"The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement."
Found in the topic Business.

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

""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."
Found in the topic Management.

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Found in the topic Do.

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."
Found in the topic School.

"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes ... but no plans."
Found in the topic Commitment.

"During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned ? not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value."
Found in the topic Change.

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

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn"t being said."
Found in the topic Communicate.

"Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality."
Found in the topic Products.

"Leadership is not magnetic personality ? that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" ? that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person"s vision to high sights, the raising of a person"s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
Found in the topic Leadership.

Interesting Quotes

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.Stanley Garn

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung - Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)