Peter Drucker Quotes

I think civility is important to getting things done.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I play well with everybody.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.