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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.

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching

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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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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