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The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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

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