Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. - Peter F. Drucker
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old - Peter F. Drucker
The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work. - Peter F. Drucker
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter F. Drucker
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter F. Drucker
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you. - Peter F. Drucker
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. - Peter F. Drucker
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. - Peter F. Drucker
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. - Peter F. Drucker
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. - Peter F. Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. - Peter F. Drucker
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. - Peter F. Drucker
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. - Peter F. Drucker
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. - Peter F. Drucker
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter F. Drucker