Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

— Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

— Peter Drucker

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

— Peter Drucker

People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.

— Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

— Peter Drucker

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

— 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

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

— Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron.

— Peter Drucker