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Peter Drucker

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself

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