THE 53 BEST PHRASES OF PETER DRUCKER [WITH IMAGES] - OTHER PHRASES - 2025

Here are the best quotes from Peter Drucker (1909-2005), considered the father of management today, a great influencer in business administration and the author of more than 35 books. His books include The Efficient Executive (1966), Management (1973), Innovation and the Innovative Entrepreneur (2000), among others.

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-The most important thing in communication is listening to what is not said.

- Earning a living is not enough, work also has to make a living.

-The problem in my life and in that of other people is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.

-Doing the right thing is more important than doing something right.

-The purpose of a business is to create and maintain a customer.

-The plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

-The goal of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits them and sells itself.

-Today knowledge has power. Control access to opportunities and advancements.

-There is nothing as useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not have been done at all.

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

-No one learns so much from a subject, as someone who is forced to learn it.

-The result of a good business is a satisfied customer.

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

-If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

-Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to do their jobs.

-Where you see a successful business, someone has made a brave decision.

-The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker, but of the boss.

-Strategy is comfort, execution is an art.

-What is measured is improved.

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

-Your first and most important job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help orchestrate the energy of those around you.

-The cultures of companies are like the cultures of countries. Don't try to change them. Instead, try to work with what you have.

-Businesses only have two functions: marketing and innovation.

-The most serious mistakes are those made as a result of incorrect answers. The real danger is asking yourself the wrong questions.

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

-The results are achieved by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

-Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. 90% of the time you don't know them.

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

-Innovating is finding new or better uses for the resources we already have.

-The rank does not confer privilege or power. It imposes responsibility.

-Creativity is the result of hard and systematic work.

-People who don't take risks usually make two big mistakes a year. People who take risks usually make two big mistakes a year.

-Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurship.

-Efficiency must be learned.

-The purpose of a business is to create a business.

-It is more productive to turn an opportunity into results than to solve a problem, which only restores yesterday's balance.

-What motivates knowledge workers is the same as what motivates volunteers; they need, above all, challenges.

-Making good decisions is a crucial skill at all levels.

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

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

-People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete; to things that should have worked but don't; to things that were once productive and are no longer.

-The entrepreneur always seeks change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity.

-The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But a wrong structure is a guarantee of failure.

-Accept the fact that we have to treat almost everyone as a volunteer.

-Free enterprise cannot be justified solely for being a good business. It can only be justified because it is good for society.

-It does not matter if the worker wants to have responsibility or not. The company must demand it.

-No institution can survive if it needs geniuses or a superman to run it. It must be organized in such a way that it is able to go well with a leadership composed of normal human beings.

-Now we accept the fact that learning is a life-long process to keep abreast of change. And the most urgent task is to teach people how to learn.

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

-Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night without lights while looking out the rear window.

-New information technology, the internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communication.