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People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter Drucker

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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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 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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

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