Peter Drucker

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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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

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

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

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

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

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

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

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

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

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

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

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

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.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

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.

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

The computer is a moron.

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.

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

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

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