What do you think of these BUSINESS RULES?

[AviatorTom]

What do you think of these two Business Rules?

Please vote in the poll.

BOTH are good rules

Only #1 is a good rule

Only #2 is a good rule

NEITHER is a good rule

Something ELSE - please tell

[KostasKouvalis]

I disagree. Most people are in business to make money. There are plenty of businesses that provide shit service, yet are rich. If you have competition or it's not neccessarily something people NEED, then sure, it's the second one. But if you're the only game in town and it's something people need and don't have a choice, they will come to you. Especially outside of the US, good service isn't valued, because they have other methods. Restaurants and hotels are the best example of this. If you're the only one, people don't really have a choice. So I supposed you can argue it only works if you have a monopoly. But also in Poland, there were two restaurants next to eachother. One was good, the other was shit, but when the good one filled up, people had no choice but to go to the shit one. Many private business owners are assholes to customers, especially resale. They're in business to make money and could care less about your feelings, because they know you're at their mercy. And take airlines. People constantly complain about their assholeness, yet still fly.

[AyChingao]

Both can be true at the same time, after all you will need to make some profit if you intend to stay in business. I do believe if you are personally invested in your product, as in it's something you actually use in an activity that you have a great deal of interest in, then your odds of success will be far greater as you will be better able to assess whether a feature or the design, or the overall design of whatever it might be actually makes sense in the real world...

[DeeDeeDeVour]

#1 is false.

Using myself as an example, I've been in business for many years to make money and I've been succeeding.

#2 is true.

However, the "good guys" are often undermined & eclipsed by those who are determined to earn more despite providing poor quality goods & services at relatively horrible prices.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@AviatorTom

Thank you, Tom, for the MHO. :)

[Jennz6]

I provide a service

[AviatorTom]

@jennz6 A useful one. 😉

[Jennz6]

@AviatorTom
The men think it’s useful

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s nonsense. There are a lot of people and companies who have become and remained filthy stinking rich with absolutely no plan to provide quality products and services, ever.
In fact, these “rules” died with demand side economics. Now, consumers get what they get and like it, or they get nothing at all. Supply side economics at work in our “capitalist” society today.

[Iron_Man]

Stupid rule you think people are gonna throw away money expecting to lose money no matter what they attempt to take on in business? They’re there to make money of course if not, they would just work for charities it’s like if you invested all your time and money for a hardware store, do you open it expecting to lose money no uncle Tom no

[PenquinKing]

Yes, the probabilities of new businesses lasting long are not a high percentage, but it is not a fact and just because you start a business with a fair price for quality goods does not mean you will make it. Both these are closer to the truth than the statements presented above.

[ArrowheadSW]

Well, it is kind of a way of looking at it. But if someone used it as a sort of guideline in business, it would kind of be along the lines of magical thinking.

[genericname85]

people don't care about quality these days. price is all that matters. simply cause people can't afford quality anymore.

[msc545]

I think they are very naive. There are plenty of companies and business only to make money that have been quite successful at doing exactly that.

[Friendlybro79]

This is a lost concept on Corporate America.

It's if you're not in business to make money what the fuck are you doing?

If you don't put your profit above all you're a loser.

[OlderAndWiser]

Explain McDonalds.

[Xawyx-2]

I prefer the second rule.