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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Peter Drucker

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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