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

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching

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

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