Quote

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.

Peter Drucker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
Author
Businessperson
Columnist
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Sculptor
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Beyond
Standard
Building
Performance
Higher
Performances
Leader
Standards
Sights
Vision
Sight
Lifting
High
Personality
Limitations
Persons
Leadership
Raising
Person
Normal
Limitation

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.
Peter Drucker
Image
There's no such thing as knowledge management there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.
Peter Drucker
Image
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
Peter Drucker
Image
Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.
Peter Drucker
Image
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker
Image
Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.
Peter Drucker
Image
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter Drucker
Image
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
Peter Drucker
Image
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
Peter Drucker
Image
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
Peter Drucker
Image
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
Peter Drucker
Image
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Image
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.
Peter Drucker
Image
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Peter Drucker
Image
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
Peter Drucker
Image
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker
Image
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.
Peter Drucker
Image
In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land it is knowledge
Peter Drucker
Image
Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.
Peter Drucker
Image
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe they are themselves Europe.
Peter Drucker