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Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
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
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 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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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 aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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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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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