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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Peter Drucker

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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 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
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

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

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