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We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.

— Peter Drucker MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

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The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

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There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.

The Practice of Management (1954)

The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

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