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本帖最后由 lxg198607 于 2010-7-21 12:52 编辑
From my point of view, Although pursuit of money may be the largest motivate of businessmen, it is biased to state that making money is the only reason for being businessmen. Because, there are many other factors that could influence their choices, such as reputation, interest and so on.
Admittedly, Almost every merchant, who lives by their business, pursues the maximal profit in every possible way. They long for money as much as all others do. Money provides their family the finest lives, and offers their children the best education. In some cases, they are in need of a big money to expand their business. Thus, that is the way they are supposed to be, and as long as they play by law, no one can doubt their motivations involved in money.
Nevertheless, many businessmen are not only motivated by money. Their purpose in being business are various, and the interest might be one of them. For example, Jenny, one of my best friend, is present selling cosmetics online. From a rich family, She seems to have little difficulty in getting as much money as she want from her parents. It has been her interest since high school that makes herself a businessman, despite that her business does not bring much money. In her perspective, business is not a way of making money, but the means of having much fun in dealing with different customers, and tasting a sense of accomplishment in giving their customers useful suggestions. Therefore, people's interest is also one of many motivations of being businessmen. It gives them pride and fun that money can not buy.
Moreover, reputation is as well an important factor of carrying on business. It is often seen that some businessmen consider reputation more important than profit. As money is a matter of period, but reputation is a matter of lifetime. A good reputation passes down from one generation to another, and takes many generations to keep and spread. So there is no surprise that some businessmen, in a sense, motivated by their reputations. I want to take a successful businessman, Jack, for example. Jack is in charge of the largest pharmacy in my city. His brand dated from 1910's, and has a good reputation among citizens. people are willing to buy medicine there because of low price and warm service. Just several years ago, a severe flu epidemic stoke my city, all kinds of medicine are in great demand. Many pharmacies took this chance to raise their prices. However, in face of huge profit, Jack still sold all of his medicine at original prices, even gave away some needed drugs to poor people. As a result of his kindness and perseverance of reputation, an increasing number of people became his frequent visitors. So, in some cases, businessmen think of reputation over money as their motivations. They would prefer to give up some temporary interest rather than ruin the reputation.
To sum up, i admit that major aim of businessmen is to make money, but it may be an overstatement that businessmen are entirely attached to money. There are some other motivations like interests, reputation promote businessmen to move forward in their field. |
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