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The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Peter Drucker

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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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

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