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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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