Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes

Peter Drucker

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Peter Drucker

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Peter Drucker

Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop.

Peter Drucker

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

Peter Drucker

The people who get nothing done often work a great deal harder. In the first place, they underestimate the time for any one task.

Peter Drucker

Direct results always come first. In the care and feeding of an organization, they play the role calories play in the nutrition of the human body.

Peter Drucker

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Peter Drucker

Today is always the result of actions and decisions taken yesterday.

Peter Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Peter Drucker