Peter Drucker Quotes

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Know your strengths and take advantage of them.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

I've realised what my strengths are and what my strengths are not, and played accordingly.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".

Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.