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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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 only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
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
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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