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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

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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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 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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
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
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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

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