Peter Drucker Quotes

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

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

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

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

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

This is a political book... It has a political purpose: to strengthen the will to maintain freedom against the threat of its abandonment in favor of totalitarianism.

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...