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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… — Lachlan Murdoch
• The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant
• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye
• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason
• We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook
• Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz
• [There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Unknown Author
• The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel
• There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein
• However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off… — Steven Pinker
• I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly

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