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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

Peter Drucker

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 computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk

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