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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.

Peter Drucker

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement 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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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

A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.

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