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A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Peter Drucker

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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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