Money Is Like Gasoline During A Road Trip

Money Is Like Gasoline During A Road Trip, Tim O'Reilly says. "You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money." (2010-05-01) Tim Oreilly The Oracle Of Silicon Valley

Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business

• also: Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

More-extreme Daniel Quinn quote: they don't keep the Circus going to make money, they make money in order to keep the circus going.