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ABOUT 2,000 years ago, Horace, the Roman poet, wrote ‘By fair means if you can but, by any means, make money’. He would probably be criticised in today’s society for encouraging greed and unscrupulousness, even though, presumably, he was only trying to emphasise the importance of the bottom line, or whatever it was called in those days.
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© 2008 Richard Thompson
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Thompson, R. (2008). Financial Philosophy and Control. In: Real Venture Capital. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594067_9
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