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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
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
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

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