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Quotes About Net gain

The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
~ Charles Platt
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'
~ Oliver E. Williamson
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.
~ Thorstein Veblen