Peter Drucker Quotes

People can progress only by working and producing more.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

A growth economy is a must.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

You cannot have prosperity without peace. Without peace, China cannot continue to develop itself.

The secret of progress, the perpetual satisfying of wants followed by the springing up of new wants, is the secret of individual unrest and disappointment.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Cities are spreading like a cancer of the planet.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

Ideas are what power our economy.

Rising inequality leads to less sustainable growth.

… growth is necessary to meet the requirements of social and national progress

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

The city that has speed has success.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.

It's always better to be doing.