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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road

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