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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

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership 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
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
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust

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