Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday. Peter Drucker problemyesterdayopportunity If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities. Peter Drucker glassesperceptionopportunity Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run. Peter Drucker riskdifferentrunning To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions. Peter Drucker successfulpeopleknowledge Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker entrepreneurwiseinspirational Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there. Peter Drucker shipsablemay Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. Peter Drucker businessleadershipmotivational That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting. Peter Drucker organizationretirementjobs Culture eats Christianity for breakfast. Peter Drucker christianityculturebreakfast Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities. Peter Drucker spontaneityinfinitenumbers It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. Peter Drucker easiermassleader There are no creeds in mathematics. Peter Drucker mathematicscreedsscience The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments. Peter Drucker politicalgovernmentdecision We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. Peter Drucker smartambitionopportunity In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. Peter Drucker educationworldschool Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. Peter Drucker keeping-promisesinspirationalcommitment Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present! Peter Drucker futuretrying The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow. Peter Drucker futurebusinessinspirational The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was. Peter Drucker preparationresponsibilityschool Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity. Peter Drucker systematicopportunitylooks
