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

Peter Drucker

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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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 well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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 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
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
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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 who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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