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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

— Peter Drucker

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✓Similar Perspectives

Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

— Jean Monnet

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

— Dee Hock

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

— Murray Rothbard

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

— Bernie Sanders

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

— Mary Douglas

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

— Noam Chomsky

✗Opposing Perspectives

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.

— Nita Ambani

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

— Wadada Leo Smith