Peter Drucker

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

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

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

“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“The computer is a moron.”

“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.'”

“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.”

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

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

“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”