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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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