From Investors.com:
Peter Drucker had an erratic early career that appeared to make him an unlikely candidate to be the most influential management thinker of the 20th century.
Apprenticing as a clerk in the late 1920s, and by his account “learning absolutely nothing,” he became a financial journalist who forecast the continued health of Wall Street just before the Crash, had his writing censored and even burned by his country’s government, and after going abroad and prospering as a bank’s asset manager, decided in the middle of the Great Depression to chuck it all — because he “saw no point in becoming the richest man in the cemetery.”
