Peter Drucker Quotes on Work & Career (9 Quotes)

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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.

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.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

To improve communications, work not on the utterer, but the recipient.

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

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.