"You can't manage what you don't measure."
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"Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right."
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"A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example."
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"Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise."
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"Business is society's change agent."
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"Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them."
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"Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time."
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"All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside."
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"Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology."
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"One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions."
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"Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it."
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"Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable."
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"[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."
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"Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions."
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"Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday."
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"The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs."
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"The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him."
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"A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive."
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"I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas."
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"Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise."
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