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

Peter Drucker

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
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
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
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

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