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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.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science

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