657 Quotes by Peter Drucker

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

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.

Profit is not a cause but a result-

The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.