Peter Drucker

Quotes

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.