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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

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Management must manage!

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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