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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

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success 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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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