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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.

Peter Drucker

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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

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