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- The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is…
- Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All…
- The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
- Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
- Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
- Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay…
- You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
- I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
- Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights…
- A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of…
- The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers
- The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
- Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
- Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
- The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.
- Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.
- There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.
- The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
- Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
- Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt