Quotes from Peter Drucker

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

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

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Leadership is all about getting results.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.