"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
"No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real."
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Source: The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker. Leader to Leader, No. 1, 1996.
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