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

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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

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

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