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    #31
    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    It's simply that when I look at the people I meet who have MBA's I struggle to believe that they have had to apply the same academic rigour as I apply to getting an MSc.
    I got me an MSc. They ain't all that...
    Older and ...well, just older!!

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      #32
      Originally posted by ratewhore View Post
      I got me an MSc. They ain't all that...
      Mine woz reelly 'ard, innit.
      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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        #33
        Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
        better put, a company is in business to make a profit
        I beg to differ.

        Originally posted by PM-Junkie View Post
        "A company exists solely to make money for its shareholders".
        is much better put that your attempt, milan.
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          #34
          There's a very good quote about profit and sanity or vanity that would be good to expound right now. I can't remember what it was though.
          Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

          C.S. Lewis

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            #35
            Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
            There's a very good quote about profit and sanity or vanity that would be good to expound right now. I can't remember what it was though.
            Sales is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality?

            Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity but cash is king?

            Volume is vanity, profit is sanity?

            Production is vanity, profit is sanity?

            Any one of those, I guess.
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              #36
              Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
              Sales is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality?

              Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity but cash is king?

              Volume is vanity, profit is sanity?

              Production is vanity, profit is sanity?

              Any one of those, I guess.
              The actual quote is "market share is vanity, profit is sanity, cash flow is reality"

              Sorry to be boring.
              Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                #37
                Originally posted by PM-Junkie View Post
                The actual quote is "market share is vanity, profit is sanity, cash flow is reality"

                Sorry to be boring.
                Depends on who you are quoting, doesn't it

                All of mine are the top few hits from a Google search for profit and vanity...
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                  #38
                  Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                  Depends on who you are quoting, doesn't it

                  All of mine are the top few hits from a Google search for profit and vanity...
                  Mine is attributed to Baruch, who is generally accepted as being the originator of that little gem. I'm not entirely convinced though...
                  Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                    ..... but making money continually over a period of many years involves a more developed way of thinking, involving an understanding of technology, the outside world, human relationships, social expectations and norms, political developments and so on and so on. A business which loses the goodwill of society is on the wrong course......
                    But I am a shareholder NOW, not in many years' time.

                    So I want the profits NOW, not in many years' time.

                    How do we overcome that?

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
                      But I am a shareholder NOW, not in many years' time.

                      So I want the profits NOW, not in many years' time.

                      How do we overcome that?
                      You must be in a hedge fund?
                      This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

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