Legally, it belongs to the estate of Harry Montjoy.

For legal reasons.

Oh, come on, come on. I told you it's mine. Let me have it.

There is no doubt about what they have done.

Fair enough.

It is also a constitutional right.

It's not just a question of unfair or ineffective laws.

Whose law?

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

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

And he followed the law, which is same law as the law now.

Whose law?

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.

Minus 50,000.

That's kind of a lot of money

Our interests clash with theirs.

Minus 500,000.

Your Honor, are we to have an arraignment in accord with the laws of this nation or is the State to be permitted to incite an atmosphere of prejudice?

This law will deprive us of our basic rights.

They acquire a library of intellectual property rights, then litigate to earn profits.

95 of my vision is gone.

It's the law.

Pearl Jam, 96 albums released in the last two years.

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.

That is the law since 1999.

Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Utilities are still rewarded when their customers waste energy.

The company announced a profit of 200 million after tax.

MlT actually lived by its actions.

Sir, I paid my dime, I paid my fare.

Well, under present law.

A benefit to both our worlds.

I'll just abbreviate that as Nl.

Go ahead, eat.

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

And that's my dad found that.

So my operating profit is really my profit because I don't have to pay taxes on it.

It hits very close to home.

And so you can already imagine that both EBlT and the way I defined it initially, operating profit divided by assets.

And that's what these brands did.

FDlC insured.

The rewards would be... enormous.

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.