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

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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 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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
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
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right

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