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A business enterprise can exist only in an expanding economy, or at least in one that considers change both natural and acceptable. And business is the specific organ of growth, expansion, and change.
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099 |
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Above all, ‘innovation’ is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. Nontechnical innovation – social or economic innovations – are at least as important as technological ones.
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100 |
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Management needs to anticipate changes in market structure that result from changes in the economy, from changes in fashion or taste, from moves by competition.
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103 |
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All economic activity… requires three kinds of resources: land, that is products of nature; labor, that is, human resources; and capital, that is, the means to invest in tomorrow.
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109 |
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Society or the economy can put any business out of existence overnight.
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110 |
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…unless an organization can be built on [social reform], it is not a valid entrepreneurial idea. The test of the idea is… economic performance and economic results.
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120 |
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The future of business, of the economy, and of society will be influenced greatly by the way we solve or fail to solve the growing crisis of the unions.
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187 |
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Strategy has to be based on information about markets, customers, and noncustomers; about technology in one’s own industry and others; about worldwide finance; and about the changing world economy. For that is where the results are.
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347 |
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Strictly in economic terms, increasing the supply of intellectuals, regardless of how much demand there may be for some, shows the productive power of current market systems.
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066 |
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We would be foolish to expect possessions to make us happy, or an economic system to care about our emotional state.
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124 |
