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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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 nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

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