Leader Quotes by Peter Drucker

Manage yourself and then your company.

— Peter Drucker

The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is an achievement of trust.

— Peter Drucker

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

— Peter Drucker

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

— Peter Drucker

Leaders grow; they are not made.

— Peter Drucker

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

— Peter Drucker

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

— Peter Drucker

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

— Peter Drucker

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

— Peter Drucker

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

— Peter Drucker

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person…

— Peter Drucker

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

— Peter Drucker

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter Drucker

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your…

— Peter Drucker

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter Drucker

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half…

— Peter Drucker

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must…

— Peter Drucker

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or…

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of…

— Peter Drucker

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

— Peter Drucker

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and…

— Peter Drucker

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they…

— Peter Drucker

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is…

— Peter Drucker

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance…

— Peter Drucker

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly…

— Peter Drucker

Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on…

— Peter Drucker

The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes…

— Peter Drucker

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will…

— Peter Drucker

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant…

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is more doing than dash.

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

— Peter Drucker

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

— Peter Drucker

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

— Peter Drucker

The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

— Peter Drucker

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

— Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

— Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

— Peter Drucker