Image by Sam Ilić via FlickrThe trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. – Elwyn Brooks WhiteZoologist Desmond Morris once did an experiment that exposed an ape to the “profit motive.” First of all he got it to draw and paint, and found that it was doing lovely things. Then he started rewarding the ape with peanuts for its work.
“Soon it was doing any old scrawl to get the peanuts,” Morris said wryly. “I had introduced commercialism into the ape’s world, and ruined him as an artist. – Thomas Wiseman
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. – Peter F. Drucker
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. – Titus Maccius Plautus
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain: the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. – chilon
Net – the biggest word in the language of business. – Herbert Casson
Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo. – Herbert J. Muller
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