Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
What's measured improves
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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