It's about responsibility for the wellbeing of others.
I don't buy the whole pitch.
It assumes that factory work has no negative environmental and social consequences.
But this is what business is for.
Useful products, a good living for all the employees and a community that is better to live in.
I don't buy the whole pitch.
It assumes that factory work has no negative environmental and social consequences.
But this is what business is for.
Useful products, a good living for all the employees and a community that is better to live in.
Linus:
If I got married, I'd have to take a Dictaphone, two secretaries and four corporation counsellors along on the honeymoon. I'd be unfaithful to my wife every night with vice presidents, boards of directors, slide-rule accountants...
This... [pointing at the office around him] this is my home.
No wife would ever understand it.
David:
Well neither can I. You've got all the money in the world.
Linus:
What's money got to do with it.
If making money were all that there was to business it would hardly be worth going to the office.
Money is a by-product.
David:
- What's the main objective? Power?
Linus:
- Ah! That's become a dirty word.
David:
What's the urge? You're going into plastics now. What will that prove?
Linus:
Prove? Nothing much.
A new product has been found, something of use to the world.
And so a new industry moves into an undeveloped area.
Factories go up, machines are brought in, a harbor is dug and you're in business.
It's purely coincidental of course that people who've never seen a dime before suddenly have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their teeth fixed and have their faces washed.
What's wrong with the kind of an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
If I got married, I'd have to take a Dictaphone, two secretaries and four corporation counsellors along on the honeymoon. I'd be unfaithful to my wife every night with vice presidents, boards of directors, slide-rule accountants...
This... [pointing at the office around him] this is my home.
No wife would ever understand it.
David:
Well neither can I. You've got all the money in the world.
Linus:
What's money got to do with it.
If making money were all that there was to business it would hardly be worth going to the office.
Money is a by-product.
David:
- What's the main objective? Power?
Linus:
- Ah! That's become a dirty word.
David:
What's the urge? You're going into plastics now. What will that prove?
Linus:
Prove? Nothing much.
A new product has been found, something of use to the world.
And so a new industry moves into an undeveloped area.
Factories go up, machines are brought in, a harbor is dug and you're in business.
It's purely coincidental of course that people who've never seen a dime before suddenly have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their teeth fixed and have their faces washed.
What's wrong with the kind of an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?