Profit Motive Quotes - Page 2

• That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

  Ramez Naam

  Environmental, Energy, Brilliant

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

  Steven Pinker

  Class, Want, Might

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• The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Diversity

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• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

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• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  Joe Conason

  Creativity, Government, Idols

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• We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

  Tim Cook

  World, Want, Reason

  "Why Tim Cook Doesn't Care About 'The Bloody ROI'" by Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. March 7, 2014.

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• A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, Groups

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• It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

  Julian Assange

  Moving, Media, May

  "The Whistleblower - Live Online Chat". Interview with Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. May 16, 2010.

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