Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

Peter Drucker

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

Peter Drucker

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

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.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

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

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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 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.

Peggy Fleming

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Paulo Coelho

The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going...

Terry Semel

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Nick Vujicic

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Nolan Ryan

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Mike Murdock

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

John Wooden

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

John Wooden

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

Merlin Olsen

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Mason Cooley

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

Mary Kay Ash

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Mary Kay Ash

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

Mary Kay Ash

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

Mary Kay Ash

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.