"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham | Ambiguity | 5 bookmarks

"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."

Drucker, Peter F. | Leaders and Leadership | 2 bookmarks

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Drucker, Peter F. | Leaders and Leadership | 9 bookmarks

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

Drucker, Peter F. | Management | 1 bookmarks

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

Drucker, Peter F. | Management | 2 bookmarks

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

Drucker, Peter F. | Mediocrity | 2 bookmarks

"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right."

Drucker, Peter F. | Right and Rightness | 1 bookmarks

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

Drucker, Peter F. | Change | 1 bookmarks

"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed"

Drucker, Peter F. | Time and Time Management | 1 bookmarks

"One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. 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. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource."

Drucker, Peter F. | Time and Time Management | 3 bookmarks