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“Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.”

Made Today Past Opportunity Perfect Practice Progress Profit Corporations Immense Translate

Author:Maurice Strong

“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.”

“Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.”

“We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible, and then you share that progress after the fact, and not before the fact. Profit sharing would resolve the conflict between management apprehensions and worker expectations on the basis of solid economic facts as they materialize rather than on the basis of speculation as to what the future might hold.”

“As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.”

Mean Quality Progress Paper Standards Consequence Concerned Excellence Size Profit Prosperity Productivity Magnitude

Author:Alex Campbell

“Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.”

Men Progress Magic Economic Depends Good Things Cancer Profit One Man Another Man Economic Systems Elixir

Book:Coll Sci Pap V5

Source: Coll Sci Pap V5

“Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.”

Littles Real Progress Profit Trials

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.”

Way Social Steps Progress Profit Every Step Elimination Disintegration

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's a thief of time and includes all the palpable and subtle violations of body, mind, and spirit done in the name of science, government, enterprise, progress, and profit.”

Mind Done Body Government Spirit Names Common Technology Progress Profit Enterprise Subtle Mentality Thieves Decency Violation Momentum Spontaneity Undermining Common Decency

Author:Stephanie Mills