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

Peter Drucker

The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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
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
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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

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