"Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost."
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"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation."
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"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
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"What's measured improves"
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"To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith."
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"Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up."
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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
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"If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time."
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"As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong."
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"Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them."
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"During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value."
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"One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it."
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"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."
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"The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs."
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"It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate."
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"Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious."
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"Leadership is defined by results not attributes."
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"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."
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"Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution."
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"Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it."
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