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

Peter Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult 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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important

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