Universal Shutdown Rule
The firm shuts down "only if its revenue is less than its avoidable costs."
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Famous quotes containing the words universal and/or rule:
“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)
“It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.”
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