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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
“Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.”
“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”
“The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”
“If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.”
“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.”
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
“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.”
“The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.”
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.”
“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”