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Leader Quotes by Peter Drucker
- The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how…
- Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the…
- Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for…
- Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes.…
- Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things…
- It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
- Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
- Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
- The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
- The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.
- We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I…
- Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.
- Leaders grow; they are not made.
- The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I."…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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 Leader Quotes
- The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. — Mary Kay Ash
- There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he… — Nelson Mandela
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down… — Benazir Bhutto
- We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare… — Hillary Clinton
- I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is… — Jeffrey Skoll
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila