Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Decisions exist only in the present..
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas..
We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never ….
Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passi….
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - ….
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it..
The computer is a moron..
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performa….
The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company..
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, so….
You can't manage what you don't measure..
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage..
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state..
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted..
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted t….
The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business..
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool..
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts..
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth..
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money..