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

Peter Drucker

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself

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