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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.

Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology

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