„”Value added” is a meaningless concept for a retail business, for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.“

— Peter F. Drucker

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„We must stop thinking primarily in terms of “money” and “business”“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.“
— John Cage
„The prevailing economic theory of business enterprise and behavior, the maximization of profit—which is simply a complicated way of phrasing the old saw of buying cheap and selling dear—may adequately explain how Richard Sears operated. But it cannot explain how Sears, Roebuck or any other business enterprise operates, nor how it should operate. The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.“
— Peter F. Drucker
„My business is not prognosis, but diagnosis. I am not engaged in therapeutics, but in pathology.“
— H.L. Mencken