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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
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
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

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