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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Peter Drucker

What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job 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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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

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