Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

Similar Peter F. Drucker quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.
- Living in the past makes your future predictable.
- A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
- A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves
- Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.
- Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- No one will ever remember you until you set an example
- Do something in your life which will make millions of people attend your funeral. Have a worthy life.
- If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far go together
- True ambition is the desire to work harder for yourself than somebody else
- The problems were never going to stop, I realized, but for the moment we had more momentum than problems.
- The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.
- It’s called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don’t wait. Just ship.
- You don’t get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
- Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people
- The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple.
- Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.
- Vision without execution is just hallucination.