Purpose
"How does a company decide whether it is successful or not? Probably the most common way is to look at the net profits of the business. Given that companies are collections of projects and markets, individual areas can be judged on how successful they are at adding to the corporate net profit."
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“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishingthat is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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—Simone Weil (19091943)
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—William Shakespeare (15641616)