“[T]he basic decisions are... about aims... what is desirable... the greater good or the lesser evil in the case of conflicting aims... what sacrifice we are willing to make for a certain achievement, and at what point the sacrifice outweighs the advantages.”

—  Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 120

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