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There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

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Peter Drucker

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

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An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. . . Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. . . . . The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

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A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

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