If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. Peter Drucker skillsnumbersjobs The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker futurechangewise I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself. Peter Drucker teachingpeoplethinking Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker encouragingwiseinspirational My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker asking-too-many-questionsignorant-massesasking-questions 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 leadershipmistakeinspirational Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them. Peter Drucker organisationformpeople Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. Peter Drucker businessopportunityappreciation During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value. Peter Drucker essencechangemotivational You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight. Peter Drucker fightingorganizationmilitary Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Peter Drucker team-buildingeffectivenessteamwork No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real. Peter Drucker realmenthinking The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker loyal-customersbusinessmotivational Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. Peter Drucker hard-timescockroacheselephants Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop. Peter Drucker trainingdevelopmentteaching Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'. Peter Drucker achievementvocabularycareers Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. Peter Drucker issuescommitmentthinking Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter Drucker practiceinspirationalart It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate. Peter Drucker jobsgivingpeople Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach . Peter Drucker teachingleadershippeople
