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

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness 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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself

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