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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

“Converting a decision into action requires answering several distinct questions: Who has to know of this decision? What action has to be taken? Who is to take it? And what does the action have to be so that the people who have to do it can do it? The first and the last of these are too often overlooked—with dire results.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive

“Effectiveness must be learned.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive

“Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive

“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive