Peter Drucker Quotes

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.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

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

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

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.