Peter F(erdinand) Drucker

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"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."	Leadership, Monarchy
"In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld."	Education, School, Sin
"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."	Friends, Leadership, Men
"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. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."	Age, Courage, Death
"The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society."	Miscellaneous
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."	Miscellaneous
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."	Age, Men, Time
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."	Hope, Men, Wishing
"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."	Miscellaneous

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