Although people often equate entrepreneurship with prioritizing profit first and foremost – which is the very antithesis of "art for art's sake" – Bridgstock explains that this is an oversimplification.
It puts the lower-ranking teams at a financial disadvantage especially if they have little money in the bank thanks to a business model which doesn't put profit first and foremost.
Some lands with unusual species or important water supplies were set aside or sold to local governments or agencies; even then, profit was foremost, MacArthur employees said.
So all funding has come from a handful non-profit organizations, foremost among them the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which backed the OCD study that inspired my own quest.
Of course this would require a shift in the belief that educational institutions are foremost profit centers rather than educational centers.
In their relationships with citizens, healthy governments are neither foremost profit-seekers nor invasive.
FOR G.E., of course, it is first and foremost a profit game.
Nevertheless, much of it resonates and made me recognize elements of my own experience that I had not previously thought about e.g., the implications of having junior analysts ask first and foremost about profit after each trade.
The Japanese news media and financial regulators, having learned that American investors are first and foremost after profits, have been less kind to Cerberus than to Ripplewood.
Anytime you switch on your television or radio, you are pretty much guaranteed to be bombarded with the enervating output of political admen, spin doctors, and negative-research shops for whom this is, first and foremost, a profit-making industry.
