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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

Peter Drucker

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

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