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“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker

“Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
― Peter Drucker

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
― Peter Drucker

“What's measured improves”
― Peter Drucker

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”
― Peter Drucker

“There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

“1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?2”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization: An Inspiring Tool for Organizations and the People Who Lead Them