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"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
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"It's already figured out."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
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"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
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"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
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"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."
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"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
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"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."
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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
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