Peter Drucker Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.33, Routledge

• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Opportunity, Careers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.16, Harvard Business Review Press

• Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Opportunity, Yesterday

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.67, Routledge

• We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

  Peter Drucker

  Smart, Ambition, Opportunity

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.139, Harvard Business Review Press

• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Wise, Knowledge

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.339, Routledge

• Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Innovation, Tempest

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.271, Routledge

• Focus on opportunities, not problems.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Focus, Problem

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

• Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Issues, Social

  "Social intrapreneurship and all that jazz" by Melody McLaren, Lionel Bodin, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2013.

• Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Achievement, Genius

• Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

• Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Stress, Creativity

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.36, Routledge

• Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.36, Routledge

• If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Glasses, Perception

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.116, Routledge

• Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

  Peter Drucker

  Appreciation, Business, Opportunity

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge

• Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Problem, Solve

• Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Innovation, Listening

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.120, Routledge

• No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Opportunity, Innovation

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.53, Routledge

• The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Real, Responsibility

• Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Progress, Guarantees

• It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Yesterday, Problem

• What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Successful, Opportunity

  Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

• Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Doe, New Opportunity

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.31, Harvard Business Review Press

• If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Failing, Despite

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.62, Routledge

• Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Organization, Problem

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin