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This code is indispensable. Be it a case of commerce, industry, politics, religion, war or philanthropy in every concern there is a management function to be performed and for its performance there must be principles, that is to say acknowledged truths regarded as proven on which to rely.

— Henri Fayol p. 42-43 cited in: John B. Miner (2006)

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To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control.

The manner in which the subordinates do their work has incontestably a great effect upon the ultimate result, but the operation of management has much greater effect.

There is no one doctrine of administration for business and another for affairs of state; administrative doctrine is universal. Principles and general rules which hold good for business hold good for the state too, and the reverse applies.

Henri Fayol (1917)

[Planning] means both to assess the future and make provision for it.

p. 43 cited in: George A. Steiner (1997)

One could define the administrative department by saying that it includes everything that is not part of the other departments, but one can define it in a more positive manner by saying that it is specifically responsible for

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