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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Peter Drucker

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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

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