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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter Drucker

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 surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing

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