The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education – or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments – is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...

— Peter F. Drucker

Peter F. Drucker Quotes

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

— Peter F. Drucker
Strategy Friday for Work Dedication Goal Setting

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

— Peter F.Drucker

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

— Peter F. Drucker
Inspirational Entrepreneurship Business Change Motivational for Work Inspirational Business

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

— Peter F. Drucker
Friday for Work

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.

— Peter F. Drucker
Strategy Friday for Work Making Money Marketing

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

— Peter F. Drucker
Strategy Friday for Work Small Business

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

— Peter F. Drucker
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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

— Peter F. Drucker
Business Friday for Work Efficiency Productivity

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

— Peter F. Drucker
Leadership Friday for Work Inspirational Business Performance

If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.

— Peter F. Drucker
Friday for Work Performance Efficiency Statistics

If you want to predict the future, create it.

— Peter F. Drucker
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The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter F. Drucker
Strong Strategy Inspirational for Work

There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

— Peter F. Drucker
Business Friday for Work Making Money Marketing

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won’t survive.

— Peter F. Drucker

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

— Peter F. Drucker

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

— Peter F. Drucker

Mother Teresa’s numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

— Peter F. Drucker

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

— Peter F. Drucker

I’m a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don’t even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

— Peter F. Drucker

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

— Peter F. Drucker
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