"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."

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"Decision making is the specific executive task."

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"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

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"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."

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"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."

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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Drucker, Peter F. on The future
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"Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future."

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"INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation."

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"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

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"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."

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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

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"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

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"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

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"Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

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"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

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"The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try."

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"We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it."

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"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."

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"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right."

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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

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"Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation."

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"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

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"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

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