Peter Drucker - Future Quotes

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Strategic planning does not deal with future decisions, It deals with the futurity of present decisions.

Peter Drucker
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century.
We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

Peter Drucker
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Peter Drucker
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

Peter Drucker
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

Peter Drucker
Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care—without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.

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Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

Peter Drucker
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.... I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

Peter Drucker
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Peter Drucker