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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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 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
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
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
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

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