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

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create 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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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 doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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

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