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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.

Peter Drucker

Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep 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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
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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Attachment Business People
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation

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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