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

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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
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
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself

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