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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral 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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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

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