I mean, these are state assets.

And that's my dad found that.

You should work in the interests of humanity.

So, it was not necessarily a bad thing.

He acted in his own interest.

People do not enslave people to be mean to them.

Science comes first, but business comes a close fucking second.

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

The reason this is happening boils down, in my mind, to one basic problem, which is our inability to perceive the difference between public benefits and private profits.

People tend to place a much higher value on losses than on gains.

To go to war, to free people from an outside aggressor, is noble

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

Quick example from the corporate world.

Also, in the interest of security and public safety...

But this idea is not always that intuitive.

Our profit here, if we just take the number that we have here,

This gave creators a window in which to cover their investment and earn a profit.

Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Business as usual is saying, what's most important is to make lots of profit, and you'll be using technology for that, and people will be your work force, instrumentalized, and environment is usually the last priority.

He is acting on his own behalf.

This guy makes 21,000.

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.

Sloan began manufacturing targets on his own for profit years ago.

The new road will benefit the people living in the hills.

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

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

So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good

The pie's getting bigger because these are real investments that are going to benefit my village.

Our interests clash with theirs.

The American troops who have risked their lives and sacrificed their limbs for strangers half a world away.

And that's what these brands did.

These include life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

All others wouldn't know what to do with them apart from getting cheeky!

We need to get away from saying democracy matters because of the other things it brings.

I don't intend... to let a person fabricate stories for selfish motives... if it keeps her from the truth.

But what do you do when the two come into conflict and you're forced to make a decision that either is in Britain's interest, or the interest of Britons, or citizens elsewhere in the world?

It's also important to think about what the benefit is.

All the profits go toward Phillip's hospital bills.

Ten percent of all future profits from his solo venture.

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

By directing that industry, so that the industry in control of that individual actor in such a manner, as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain.

But go to war to defend the interests of the USA,

There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U.S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.

And when I think of near term profits

Water, the basic component of all life... had been deemed a threat to Brawndo's profit margin.