When it comes to business, maximizing sales and profits are two fundamental objectives. Sales maximization is a business strategy that a company implements when it wants to focus on generating as much ...

This paper hinges on the distinction between "maximizing profit" and "making profit." It recounts from Adam Smith the ethical basis for profit making, and observes in Augustin Cournot why the ...

When a small business is first getting started, its goal may appear relatively straight forward: to make as much money as possible for its owners. But for a business to be successful long term, a new ...