Speaking plainly on profits

A businesswoman in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged opens a controversial new railway line, one violently opposed by the politically correct. She calls a press conference...

"The reporters who came to the press conference had been trained to think that their job consisted of concealing from the world the nature of its events. It was their daily duty to serve as audience for some public figure who made utterances about the public good, in phrases carefully calculated to have no meaning." Pressured to defend her reasons for opening the unpopular railway line, Dagny Taggart says: "Would you oblige me by taking this down verbatim? Miss Taggart says – quote – I expect to make a pile of money on the John Galt Line. I will have earned it. Close quote. Thank you so much."

Not something you hear enough of these days: "I expect to make a pile of money. I will have earned it." Making a pile of money is a good thing. Profit is good. You don't agree? Then check out the Galileo Blogger making the One-Minute-Case for Profit. Your minute starts now...