There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
PETER DRUCKER1. 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?
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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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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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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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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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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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.
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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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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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