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Peter Drucker

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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 computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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