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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

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