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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Peter Drucker

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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

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