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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

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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching

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