black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER

Best Creation Future Yourself
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
PETER DRUCKER

Knowledge Strength Success Value
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
PETER DRUCKER

Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKER

Danger Result True Wrong
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Believe Himself Ideas People
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
PETER DRUCKER

Job Pay
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
PETER DRUCKER

History Human Leadership Suffering
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Alone Person Strength Weakness
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
PETER DRUCKER

Communication Deep Important
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
PETER DRUCKER

Choice Decision
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKER

Mistake People Risk
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
PETER DRUCKER

Eyes Job Yourself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
PETER DRUCKER

Inspirational Knowledge Right
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
PETER DRUCKER

Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER

Education Important

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Peter Drucker Quotes