My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

- Peter Drucker

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

- 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.

- Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

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

- Peter Drucker