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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
[ Business ]
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Decision making is the specific executive task.
[ Decisions ]
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
[ Education ]
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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
[ Efficiency ]
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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
[ Work ]
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
[ Knowledge ]
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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
[ Management ]
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
[ Committees and Meetings ]
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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
[ Ask ]
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
[ Management ]
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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
[ Action ]
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
[ The future ]
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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
[ Mistakes ]
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
[ Change ]
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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
[ Work ]
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
[ Communication ]
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
[ Change ]
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
[ Management ]
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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
[ Business ]
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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
[ Communication ]
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
[ Management ]
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
[ Mediocrity ]
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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
[ Knowledge ]
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
[ Commitment ]
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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
[ Motivation ]
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
[ Education ]
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