Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotations

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

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

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

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

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

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

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

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

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

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

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.

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.