Peter Drucker



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Other quotes about: speech making
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes."

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Other quotes about: history
"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."

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Other quotes about: class
"In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld."

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Other quotes about: friend people person friends
"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."

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Other quotes about: success courage
"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

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Other quotes about: work good intention hard
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

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Other quotes about: work people man making
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

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"The computer is a moron."

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Other quotes about: society
"The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society."

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Other quotes about: important
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

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Other quotes about: man
"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

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Other quotes about: nothing man
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

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Other quotes about: hope plans
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."

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

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