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As high brow as we'd all like to be, the honest truth is the only measure in business relates to profits. How much you can make and how quickly. Your investors
by ConceptDog 17y ago
As high brow as we'd all like to be, the honest truth is the only measure in business relates to profits. How much you can make and how quickly.
Your investors don't care how you make money, so long as it doesn't impede the making of future money.
- DrJokepu 17y agoWhile your utilitarian philosophy (the only measure that counts is success) might make sense on the surface, many people (including me) believe that utilitarianism has a number of problems. First, your relative success today doesn't mean that you will be more successful or successful at all today. This is similar to the fallacies of greedy algorithms in computer science, if you're familiar with them. Secondly, utilitarianism will not give you happiness, which is pretty much the most important thing in life, more important than financial success.
- jacquesm 17y agoOr simply enough to support your lifestyle. If you don't have investors and you stay close to the ground then it's surprising how little you really need.
- Psyonic 17y agoThat may be how it is, but it's not how it has to be.