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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Peter Drucker

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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence 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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