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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
― Peter Drucker

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

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

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. 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

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker

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

“What's measured improves”
― 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

“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

“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.”
― Tiger Woods

“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”
― Winston Churchill

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“Champions get up when they can't.”
― Jack Dempsey

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”
― C. D. Jackson

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
― Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”
― Steven Wright

“I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.”
― Steven Wright

“When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.”
― Steven Wright

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.”
― Ignazio Silone

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
― Linus Pauling

“A goal without a method is cruel.”
― W. Edwards Deming