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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.

Peter Drucker

The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
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
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
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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