Peter Drucker Work Quotations

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

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work

The growth for education and training will be in continuing adult education. Online delivery is the trigger for this growth, but the demand for lifetime education stems from profound changes in society. We live in an economy where knowledge, not buildings and machinery, is the chief resource and where knowledge-workers make up the biggest part of the work force.

What gets measured gets managed.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

The computer is a moron.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.