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

Peter Drucker

1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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 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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk

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

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