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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
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 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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

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