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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

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 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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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

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