Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. -Alvin Toffler, futurist and author (1928- )
This quote makes me think firstly about Accounting – hey, it’s all about profits; secondly, I have never eaten a sausage. No sexual jokes necessary. Of course I mean food.
It’s always the end result we seek. The profit is the end result of a fiscal period stating/presenting the ability of an entity to perform successfully. This of course is the something we also see when we buy food if it’s processed in some way. We don’t care what’s been done to present this food as long as we can have it.
This just sits funny with me. The result, the end product, we want to see the end result when ultimately death is the only result of this life. Regardless of the number of sausages, the amount of profits we reap the benefits of, we will die.
Whether this is a morbid blog or simply a general observation brought on by my daily email from Wordsmith
is left for you to guess. I know I’m betting on the latter.
