Every day I post quotes by Peter Drucker on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. I’ve curated these quotes over many years, and I find them to be inspirational and useful in my work and life. Here are some of my favorites, grouped by topic:

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Innovation
“Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.”
“The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won’t survive.”
“Systematic innovation requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.”
“Innovation is not a technical term. It is an economic and social term.”
“The test of an innovation is whether it creates value.”
Self-Development
“Self-development may require learning new skills, new knowledge, and new manners.”
“The first priority for one’s own development is to strive for excellence.”
“Listening for the signal that it is time to change is an essential skill for self-development.”
“Self-development becomes self-renewal when you walk a different path, become aware of a different horizon, move toward a different destination.”
“Just as no one learns as much about a subject as the person who is forced to teach it, no one develops as much as the person who is trying to help others to develop themselves.”
Careers
“The manager of tomorrow will increasingly have more than one career.”
“We will have to learn to develop second careers for accomplished professional and managerial people when they reach their late forties or so.”
“Most of us, if we live long enough, must change careers.
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