Peter Drucker
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.Collection: Character
Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.Collection: Innovation
Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.Collection: Passion
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agentCollection: Organization
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.Collection: People
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.Collection: Giving
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.Collection: Decision
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.Collection: Motivational
The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.Collection: Success
An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.Collection: Men
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.Collection: Years
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.Collection: Education
Leadership is an achievement of trust.Collection: Achievement
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.Collection: Leadership
As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.Collection: Uncomfortable
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.Collection: Leadership
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.Collection: Thinking
What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.Collection: Doe
The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.Collection: Children
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.Collection: Jobs
Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.Collection: Leader
It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.Collection: People
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.Collection: Knowing
In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.Collection: Organization
The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.Collection: Business
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.Collection: Inspirational
The fruit of your work grows on other people's treesCollection: People
Strong people have strong weaknesses.Collection: Strong
In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledgeCollection: Land
Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.Collection: Lynching
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.Collection: Writing
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.Collection: Enemy
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.Collection: Time
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.Collection: Giving
The fault is in the system and not in the men.Collection: Men
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.Collection: Mean
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.Collection: Power Relationships
Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.Collection: Change
Knowledge applied is productivity.Collection: Productivity
Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.Collection: People
Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.Collection: Opportunity
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.Collection: Meaningful
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.Collection: Years
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."Collection: Keys
All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.Collection: Degenerates