Peter Drucker Quotes

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.

I know there are a lot of experts in the media - a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they're talking about all the time. They don't know what they're talking about.

You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Knowledge is only potential power.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.