Peter Drucker Quotes

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

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

To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.

Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.