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Executive Quotes by Peter Drucker
- An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
- To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and…
- Decision making is the specific executive task.
- An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
- No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
- The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole…
More Executive Quotes
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- ...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot
- I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records. — L.A. Reid
- To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard
- Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey
- I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time… — Sam Walton
- The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the… — Edward Bernays