Peter Drucker Quotes

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

I stress character, character, character.