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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Peter Drucker

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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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