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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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

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