Quotes

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.” Peter Drucker

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

“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” Peter Drucker

“Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.” Peter Drucker

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

“Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” Peter Drucker

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

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

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

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Peter Drucker

“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.” Peter Drucker

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Peter Drucker

“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.” Peter Drucker

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

“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.'” Peter Drucker

“The computer is a moron.” Peter Drucker

“We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.” Peter Drucker

“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.” Peter Drucker

“The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.” Peter Drucker

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Dwight Eisenhower

“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” Dwight Eisenhower

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight Eisenhower

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Dwight Eisenhower

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight Eisenhower

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” Dwight Eisenhower

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.” Dwight Eisenhower

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” Dwight Eisenhower