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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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 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

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