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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself

This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

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