the profit motive

What inspired these companies was a combination of the profit motive and the desire to innovate and improve people's lives.

Management experts and consultants view them as horribly inefficient due to the absence of the concentrating power of the profit motive.

Overturning the notion that the profit motive was evil, they approved of trade and business, as long as they were honest.

Our task is to take advantage of this historic moment to remove the profit motive in newsgathering.

Mullainathan likes to say that in many areas of life, the profit motive promotes consumer welfare.

He wanted institutional diversity and motivational variety, not monolithic markets and singular dominance of the profit motive.

Whatever idealism may motivate the participants, the profit motive predominates, permeates, and ultimately governs the transaction.

Free markets and the profit motive, far from being enemies to blacks, have been friends.

The real risk may not be that the profit motive will wreck the public services, but that compromises will neuter the reforms.

Pushed by the profit motive, and by a Kremlin eager to build economic empires, Russian businessmen are heading south.

High-tech companies such as Google have no difficulty in combining the profit motive with the ethos of a campus.

and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced.

The profit motive stimulates a continual search by producers for newer, better or cheaper products and services.

Clearly, everything Fannie and Freddie did was because of the profit motive -- after all, they were private corporations.

The incident occurred as a warning to people: the profit motive of some people, unscrupulous is the source of trouble.

THE profit motive is alive and well at the Circle hospital outside Bath, in south-west England.

But the inescapable fact is that only the profit motive and competition keep enterprises lean, efficient, innovative and customer-oriented.

But on Monday NYSE Technologies abandoned the profit motive and open sourced MAMA.

The profit motive has been making further steady advances in the state sector since Margaret Thatcher's outsourcing campaign in the 1980s.

There are many reasons that individuals consider a small business besides the profit motive.

Alas, just now Britons seem reluctant to accept that the profit motive can co-exist with altruism.

Ms Schmidt said companies were increasingly paying attention to such issues, but that the profit motive could hold back due diligence.

Free markets and the profit motive have not reduced opportunities.

The profit motive is a crucial source of discipline.

Every business decision is based on the profit motive.

Like most liberals, Mr Obama is suspicious of the profit motive, and wants the government to play a bigger role;