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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Peter Drucker

The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible

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