The country is now reinvesting 2 percent of its gross domestic product in energy infrastructure while China is plowing back 9 percent, Kearney adds.

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The money that I make as a profit, I'm plowing right back in, and even the money that I pay to the bank for my business loans.

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While driving cost leadership as a discipline, we were also taking profits and cash and plowing it back in the company, all in the name of growth for the clients.

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