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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
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

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