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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

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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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 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

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