Noun
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profit motive (plural profit motives)
(economics) The pursuit of financial gain as a motivation for individuals and firms to conduct business.
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. Tom Scholz
Mimi: Silencing you because I don't like what you say is censorship. Silencing you because I can make more money that way is copyright. They're totally different! Eunice: The profit motive makes it OK. Nina Paley
The profit motive and the competitive struggle are more productive and less destructive on the frontier than in the city. Maldistribution of income becomes more devastating with increasing complexity and interdependence. Kirby Page
While it must be admitted that the class of rich absentee owners or investors would doubtless be far less interested in industry if the profit motive were eliminated or subordinated, they represent the group that makes the smallest actual contribution to efficiency in industry. Kirby Page
Labour will try to convince you that it is sympathetic to business. Don't believe such stories. The truth is that the party has a classic left-wing suspicion of business and the profit motive. Laisenia Qarase
I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia. Bill Browder