It is the right of owners to decide whether to keep all profit themselves or reinvest parts or all of the profits into the business.

所有者有权决定是自己保留所有利润还是重新投入一部分继续运行。

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What allows companies to grow and prosper is a viable product offering at a fair price in which the buyer perceives you are providing him with value and the seller, Groupon in this case, has something left as a profit with which to reinvest in the business, pay dividends and see its stock price rise if it is a public company.

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And with less access to capital, less credibility in the money markets, and less profit to reinvest, that investment programme would be cut back.

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