How to Use profit motive in a Sentence

profit motive

noun

• These days, the effort to fix the climate is being driven by the profit motive—and that’s a good thing.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• Banning the profit motive in medicine is a recipe for less investment in medicine.
  — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes, these data sets are for pure research, with no profit motive.
  — Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
• Our usual sense of hours passing, subject to rules imposed by the profit motive, collapsed into a more liquid state: drowsy rather than wide awake and ready for work.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• All the while, something else went up in flames: the fiction that anything other than the profit motive is going to govern how AI gets developed and deployed.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• In a multibillion-dollar market, perhaps the profit motive would be the most effective way to spur action.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• This will be news to the inventors of the internet, who were civil servants and academic geeks with zero profit motive.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• The trust’s purpose is to use its votes to ensure that the company balances the profit motive with its mission to ensure that its cutting edge technology is used for good and not evil.
  — Ted Ladd, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• These degrees, unlike schools of business, put a great deal more emphasis on the people and learning side of leadership rather than simply the profit motive.
  — Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
• Other publications are trying to take the profit motive out of journalism.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Financiers trusted the accuracy of credit ratings and risk models, even though these had been created by people with a profit motive and had never been tested in a crisis.
  — Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
• But both Musk and Altman believed that the safer course for AI would be in the hands of a research operation not polluted by the profit motive, a persistent temptation to ignore the needs of humans in the search for boffo quarterly results.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• The profit motive worked particularly well on the Santa Monica Freeway.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Legal experts said that the nature of Weidner’s financial arrangement raises serious concerns that profit motive could dictate which cases — and how many — the cities pursue.
  — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• At one level, BP has recently decided to diversify less because the company’s stockmarket returns were lower than desired – the profit motive is still a concern.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Mostaque also suggested that Midjourney offered an alternative to Silicon Valley’s profit motive.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker and Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• These people say that sorting out that potential conflict of interest will address other governance issues, including the board’s reporting hierarchy and the differing objectives between a nonprofit mission and corporate profit motive.
  — Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024