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> There’s a lot to be said for working smart in a business where turnover has shown to vanity and profit sanity. This isn't grammatical! What does it mean? Is
by tantalor 6y ago
> There’s a lot to be said for working smart in a business where turnover has shown to vanity and profit sanity.
This isn't grammatical! What does it mean? Is it machine translated?
- burkaman 6y agoI think it should be "turnover has shown to be vanity and profit sanity." This is apparently based on a phrase I've never heard: https://www.quora.com/Who-coined-the-phrase-turnover-is-vanity-profit-is-sanity-cash-is-a-reality?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Who-coined-the-phrase-turnover-is-vani... I realize this doesn't really help, I don't understand the phrase either.
- tantalor 6y agoInteresting! I had never heard that phrase before. Also found this good source: https://www.otmbookkeeping.com.au/turnover-is-vanity-profit-is-sanity/ https://www.otmbookkeeping.com.au/turnover-is-vanity-profit-...
- ceilingcorner 6y agoPresumably it should have a ‘be’ in there before ‘vanity’ and thus mean something like, “in the bike shop business, turnover (number of bikes sold) isn’t as important as profit.” I imagine that profit margins are not exceptionally high when selling bikes.
- quercusa 6y agoThat makes sense of it. Thank you!
- function_seven 6y agoI re-read this sentence a dozen times trying to figure it out. Here's my correction, based on sibling comments: > There's a lot to be said for working smart in a business where turnover is vanity, and profit is sanity.
- kirykl 6y agoThe entire article is poorly written