66 result(s) for 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."
"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."
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
"The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't."
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it."
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
"Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference."
"The productive worker is the one who can do the work of his job better than his fellow workers."
"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."
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes."
"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right."
"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."
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
"Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it."
"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."
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."
"Leadership is not rank, privileges, titles, or money. It is responsibility."
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."
"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."
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"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
"Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."
"The most important question to ask is 'What needs to be done?'"
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems."
"Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings, the better."
"The most efficient way is to do one thing at a time."
"Management is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
"The most important question in the world is, 'What percent of the time are you right?'"
"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed."
"Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves, their strengths, their values, and how they best perform."
"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."
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"Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
"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 high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
"The most important thing in a communication is hearing what isn't said."
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
"In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision."
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
"Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."
"The best way to manage change is to create it."
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."
"What gets measured gets improved."
"The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills. Everything else will become obsolete over time."
"The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system's weaknesses irrelevant."
"Innovation is change that creates a new dimension of performance."
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
"The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure."
"Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation."
"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."
"You cannot manage what you cannot measure."
"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets to coordinate people doing the same job, or one meets to share information. "
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