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

Peter Drucker

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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

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