Peter Drucker Quotes

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Today technology permits knowledge to bubble up from more dispersed sources that are filtered through more competitive mechanisms, sustaining a more decentralized and accurate system of social discovery. We can acquire general expertise without being beholden to particular experts.

We are drowning in information.

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

The information age is first and foremost an education age in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

the day Johannes Gutenberg finished his wooden printing press in 1440. Western civilization turned onto a path toward more efficient, accessible communication of knowledge.]

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.