The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to …

John Maynard Keynes
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society. ✨ John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion
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