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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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

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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