Peter Drucker Quotes

"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.