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

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself

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