In a word, he gained much profit.

And at least it'll give you a sense of how revenues, gross profit, operating profit, pre tax income and net income really are different.

He claimed his share of the profits.

Our interests clash with theirs.

Minus 500,000.

They don't have to be.

This is what the owners of the company get before they pay the government.

(Laughter) But I know it's the bottom line, or one's perception of it, that motivates people in the end.

But here you see it means very, very different things.

We are assuming a very simple world, were the is no taxes, we have no debt, we have no intrest or things

This is really important to pay attention to, because so many people say, oh, a company made this much.

I'll just abbreviate that as Nl.

Darling, this is what the benefit is for, to raise money.

Go ahead, eat.

I have to run to get out of here.

And when people talk about earnings of a company, this is what they're talking about.

We're just a couple of guys in a chat room.

Its owner shall guard it profitlessly

And let's say, assume if I inherited this million dollars, I didn't finance it.

Why make this thing?

Why isn't it on every poster across the third world?

All they care about is profits.

No one wants it to go off.

They're the things that are needed to generate the operating profit.

It is to his advantage.

No pain, no gain.

No gains without pains.

Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

The taxes will be 153,000.

I'm not a charity commissioner.

A benefit to both our worlds.

So you've probably heard not only the term earnings, you've probably also heard the term earnings per share.

They buy more of your service and they tell more of their friends, which leads to more profit.

But the majority of the world neither benefits from capitalism nor from democratic systems.

They have no interest expense, because that's not the point of this video.

When it's rainy and windy, he gives up.

It's a special interest group?

I realized that for the greater good, I had to let him go.

Which in my experience means communication that manages to speak to and expand our concept of self interest.

So that's a nice thing to keep in the back of your mind, this return on asset concept, and it's very closely tied to operating profits and the actual assets of a firm.

And that's what these brands did.

FDlC insured.

And that's my dad found that.

The rewards would be... enormous.

You can talk about the Humanities and that sort of thing, but let's talk about selfish things.