On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM, John Williams <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Aren't almost all companies "worried about making money for > themselves"? Seems to work out all right to me. > No, all companies aren't. I'm on the board of a $10 million company that seeks to make not a cent of profit. My family's insurance company doesn't seek to make a cent of profit. Nor does the company where most of our retirement money is. The first is a non-profit and the other two are mutual benefit corporations that don't make money as companies. They pay good salaries and bonuses and return profits to their customers/members. I think it says a lot about a person's attitude if they think that every company is motivated by profit. Some of the largest, most successful companies in the world were not managed by seeking profits. My financial mentor for 25 years is a former Teledyne CEO, who learned from Henry Singleton that if you manage by cash flow, profit takes care of itself. Lack of cash kills a lot more companies than balance sheet losses. Do you mean, why would Americans choose freedom when they can instead > have their money taken from them and told what to do with their money > and have their health care choices dictated by their rulers? It is a sick version of freedom that ideologically dictates that we are not free to offer health care to everyone, as a nation rather than through private enterprise. Nick
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