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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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