"Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential."
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"Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are."
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"With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe."
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"There is a point at which a transformation has to take place."
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"The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society."
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"We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit."
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"Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done."
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"One either meets or one works."
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"The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires."
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"Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself."
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"Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?"
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"The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent."
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"In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom."
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"Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao."
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"The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business."
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"A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it."
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"The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work."
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"If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up."
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"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast."
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"We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works."
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