The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
The most effective way to manage change is to create it.
The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
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