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“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
― Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
― Peter Drucker

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
― Peter Drucker

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
― Peter Drucker

“Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
― Peter Drucker

“Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. 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.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ”
― Peter Drucker

“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.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”
― Peter Drucker

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.”
― Peter Drucker

“The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
― Peter Drucker

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Essential Drucker

“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.”
― Peter Drucker

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

“It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive

“Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive

“Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive