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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 only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
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
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

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