Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter Drucker

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
~ Peter Drucker

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A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
~ Peter Drucker

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.
~ Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
~ Peter Drucker

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

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The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
~ Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
~ Peter Drucker

The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
~ Peter Drucker