Peter Drucker Leader Quotations

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

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

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

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

Leaders grow; they are not made.

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.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'