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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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 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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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