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

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
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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