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

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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 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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
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
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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

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