Peter Drucker Quotes

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

Football management is about managing people.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

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

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

What I have done in my management career means I would have a good chance to get offered a job that will give me a chance to achieve success again.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

You are always evaluating. That philosophy is very important for me. Because of that, I am - or maybe I should say was - a very successful manager.

It's my job to build the people who are going to build the company.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.