It is, instead, the result of a reckless disregard for sound investing practices in the unscrupulous pursuit of profit.
Like much else from the same era, that which was once rebellious was quickly assimilated in the pursuit of profit.
The standard of living people in the West enjoy today is due to little else but the selfish pursuit of profit.
Free from government interference and confident our rights would be upheld, the pursuit of profit propelled Americans to unprecedented living standards.
He said people had had enough of employers using "unjust laws" to "pitch one European worker against fellow European workers" in the pursuit of profit.
The only thing that forces hiring is the pursuit of profit.
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The Economist will make this bet: if the customer-centric support economy does come to be, the main reason will have been the unrestrained pursuit of profit.
Thus, the selfish pursuit of profit serves a social purpose.
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Regulators have pressured banks to detail clawbacks in compensation agreements since the financial crisis, when, they contend, incentives encouraged Wall Street workers to overlook risk in pursuit of profit.
So now we have the most powerful and cohesive organizations on Earth devoted to the pursuit of profit above all else and frequently at the expense of public interest.
The long departed Mr Nowrajee understood that while Hong Kong might gain its vitality from the ruthless pursuit of profit, it was also a place of spiritual questing and romantic longing.
Yet any review of religious texts, Friday sermons or contemporary debate on the subject shines light on Islamic finance's true intentions: infusing commerce with social justice, so that the pursuit of profit is tempered by concern for the welfare of the most disadvantaged.
Rand also noted that only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism -- and that so long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster.
In a land where the pursuit of pure profit was officially frowned upon, however, shareholders were to a large extent taken for granted.
Anything that looks like a miracle in New York turns out to be a tale of years of complex political maneuvering and the pursuit of mind-boggling profit margins in which a public vision is maintained in the face of monumental setbacks, betrayals, duplicity and despair.
Many of them have even converted to for-profit status, in pursuit of capital to fuel their expansion.
As evidenced by the market for baseball cards, new entrants did as they've always done when it comes to lowering profit margins in pursuit of, yes, profits.
Most people assume GOP conservatives are reflexively pro-capitalist, that they embrace free markets, profit-making, and the pursuit of happiness through worldly success.
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And while the struggling economy has forced many non-profit charities to scale back the pursuit of their missions for lack of confident donors, Congress withheld a tiny provision in the tax code designed to connect charitably inclined retirees with causes in need of funding for 2012 until ATRA, the American Tax Relief Act of 2013.
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