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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

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 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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value

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