A Quote by Peter Drucker

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Peter Drucker

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Business Enterprise Fulfill Functions Human Only Social

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Peter Drucker
American - Businessman
November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

Saul Alinsky

The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Few 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

Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

Marc Benioff

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

Peter Drucker

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Havelock Ellis

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

Angela Ahrendts

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

Peter Drucker

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

Keith Ferrazzi

It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly.

Richard Belzer

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.