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A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Peter Drucker

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
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
PETER DRUCKER

Decision Oneself Rule

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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