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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job 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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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 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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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