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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness

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