Stark argues for what he calls the "profit-seeking paradox" which he defines as "the best way to maximize profit is not to seek to maximize profit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

The profit-system should be called profit-seeking, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [ECONOMIC HISTORY] Reference

His interests weren't limited to profit-seeking corporations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Drucker's Legacy] Reference

The issue of the spirit of profit-seeking was discussed here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO ADDRESSES CLOSE OF YOUTH CONGRESS] Reference

There was discussion of the profit-seeking spirit of professionals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO ADDRESSES CLOSE OF YOUTH CONGRESS] Reference

Or are you doing a little bit for your own enjoyment, your own profit-seeking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Paul Volcker] Reference

But another significant part of the answer lies in the phrase "profit-seeking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Incentives vs. Government Waste] Reference

At the same time, I know that profit-seeking activities have unhealthy side effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitalism 3.0~ Preface] Reference

We have to work both with and against the profit-seeking logic of private capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayibuye - December 1997] Reference

Google is a profit-seeking, publicly held company that's in competition with Microsoft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rants: On Ice, Isotopes and Presidential Advice] Reference

The transition from casual seller to profit-seeking business can seem almost spontaneous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Online Sellers Face New IRS Rules] Reference

In short, we have to work with and against the profit-seeking logic of private capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [REPORT ON THE ALLIANCE SUMMIT] Reference

Why do you think private, profit-seeking, businesses were so eager to get into this field?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEDICAL PRICES �� Force Their Posting] Reference

Why are profit-seeking corporations so much more efficient and innovative than bureaucracies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incentives vs. Government Waste] Reference

More precisely it's a profit-seeking entity punishing anyone who doesn't use those technologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference

But believe it or not, this reflects the conventional view of how profit-seeking businessmen think.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Succeed In Business: Really Try] Reference

This is a profit-seeking entity incentivizing the use of technologies that save everyone time and money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference

So even from terms of pure self - interest and profit-seeking, they want to build the small vehicles now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 23, 2008] Reference

There is every reason to believe that profit-seeking has been a tremendous stimulus to economic activity in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker] Reference

But the same ideas can apply to any unregulated profit-seeking corporation, even the smaller ones and the private ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unregulated Capitalism Harms The Country These Six Ways] Reference

It would be odd to think that the Swedish left is more relaxed about profit-seeking schools than the British Conservative party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profit is the key to success in ‘Swedish schools’] Reference

There are the self-interested, profit-seeking institutions of business, and then there's the public interest and that's government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarianism: A Primer] Reference

It shows why Wal-Mart as a government agency would actually provide fewer public benefits than as a grubby, profit-seeking colossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wal-Mart's A Diversion] Reference

In this so-called "independent" institution there is no public interest or power within its privately-owned, profit-seeking, system.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUBLIC CENTRAL BANK - FIRE THE FED] Reference

I can imagine scenarios in which profit-seeking hackers take control of networks of phones and use them to make calls to 900 numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERNET SECURITY: THE TWO-MINUTE VIRUS] Reference

The movement has been consistently fought by competitive profit-seeking interests but without avail further than to delay the movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church Cooperation in Community Life] Reference

As wages are driven down by the demands of profit-seeking corporations, the ability of the market to consume the produced goods shrinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [End the Fed? Or End the Market Economy?] Reference

Particularly gauling to see it at companies owned by and proclaiming to be somehow any different than other profit-seeking organizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current TV Staff Suffer A “Major Bloodbath” As 80 Employees Lose Their Jobs] Reference

They are discussing whether the burden of government interference has become so great that they should become a profit-seeking organisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

I think that there is a lot of talk -- and maybe mythology -- about senior executives in the past and profit-seeking motives and getting wealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Bailout Backlash] Reference

In fact, in modern times, most famines don't even result from a local lack of food -- they are a product of hoarding and very logical profit-seeking behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Welsh: Limits To Growth?] Reference

That's why it's extremely important for companies to be driven not only by profit-seeking but also by a vision of a larger purpose in serving real human stakeholders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldman Sachs Is No Less Moral Than You] Reference

As he compiled the book, Greenspan lifted his eyes from spreadsheets and data sets long enough to notice certain universals in human behavior — beyond profit-seeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economics of Human Behavior] Reference

We live in a culture of profit-seeking leeches that are only too happy to sell us compromised foods and line their pockets with the profits gained from pillaging our health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Pirello: Is the Early Onset of Puberty in Young Girls Linked to Meat?] Reference

As the iconic economist might put it: 'If the problem were tractable, some profit-seeking enterprise would already be making profits resolving it,'MacMillan and Thompson write.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet The Wealth Builders Of The Developing World] Reference

More than any previous nation in history, the United States made its way forward on a 200-year wave of upwardly mobile, profit-seeking merchants, tradesmen, craftsmen and workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Meaning of 'Historic Vote'] Reference