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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.

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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
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

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