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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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

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