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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

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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