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

Peter Drucker

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge 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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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 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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People

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