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It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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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Believe Himself Ideas People
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
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
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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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