With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
Peter DruckerA primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
Peter DruckerNo financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
Peter DruckerInside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.
Peter DruckerFew relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.
Peter Drucker