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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning 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 computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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