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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

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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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Secret Time Worth

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