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“Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.”

Mean Ends Business Profit Finance

Author:Charles Handy

“Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.”

Men Mean Reason Done Able Common Successful Activity Constitution Profit Harm

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.”

People Ifs Mean Might Company Millions Products Cost Dollars Profit Efficient Incentives Million Dollars Illiterate

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its costs (like pollution).”

Mean Term Cost Benefits Entrepreneur Profit Get Away Pollution Free Market Euphemism Socializing

Author:Steve Kangas