"Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility."
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"The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job."
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"No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all."
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"Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure."
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"Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action."
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"Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'"
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"To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business."
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"Working with people is difficult, but not impossible."
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"One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time."
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"Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy."
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"Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION."
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"Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city."
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"People alone of all the resources can grow and develop."
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"Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits."
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"An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt."
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"A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future."
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"An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform."
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"No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success."
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"What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do."
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"..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer."
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