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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

Peter Drucker

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
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
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 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
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

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