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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important

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