Peter Drucker Non Profit Quotes & Sayings

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something. — Peter Drucker

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit. — Peter Drucker

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity. — Peter Drucker

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity — Peter Drucker

Profit is not a cause but a result- — Peter Drucker

The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether. — Peter F. Drucker

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior ... — Peter Drucker

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced. — Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most. — Peter Drucker

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss — Peter Drucker

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless. — Peter Drucker