Quote

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Peter Drucker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
Author
Businessperson
Columnist
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Sculptor
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Longer
Education
State
States
Sole
Property

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
Peter Drucker
Image
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
Peter Drucker
Image
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
Peter Drucker
Image
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.
Peter Drucker
Image
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
Peter Drucker
Image
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than making deals. Management affects people and their lives.
Peter Drucker
Image
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
Peter Drucker
Image
The most effective way to manage change is to create it.
Peter Drucker
Image
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
Peter Drucker
Image
There are no creeds in mathematics.
Peter Drucker
Image
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
Peter Drucker
Image
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
Peter Drucker
Image
The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.
Peter Drucker
Image
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
Image
Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.
Peter Drucker
Image
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become everybody's entitlement and an increasing burden on those who produce.
Peter Drucker
Image
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
Peter Drucker
Image
Profit is not a cause but a result-
Peter Drucker
Image
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
Image
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker