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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology

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