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

Peter Drucker

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
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
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 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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time

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

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