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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

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job 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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
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 first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule

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