{"quotes":[{"text":"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["accountant","accountants","accounting","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","at-odds","axiom","axioms","bad-people","bad-person","bankrupt","bankruptcy","business","business-man","business-men","business-people","business-person","business-woman","business-women","businesses","choice","choose","chose","clash","companies","company","conflict","contradict","contradiction","deep","desire","desires","dictum","dictums","dilemma","epigram","epigrams","force","forced","friction","funny","gnome","gnomes","good-people","good-person","humor","humorous","humour","income","incomes","incompatibility","incompatible","insightful","loss","losses","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maximize","maxims","maximum","minimize","minimum","mismatch","money","philosopher","profit","profit-and-loss","profits","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","revenue","revenues","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","seller","sellers","selling","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":235706,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","conditional-love","consumerism","date","dating","double","earning","earnings","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","funny","half","halves","humor","humour","income","job","jobs","joke","jokes","love","man","marriage","marriages","married","marry","materialism","men","money","paid","pay","payment","relationship","relationships","revenue","revenues","salaries","salary","satire","single","twice","twofold","unconditional-love","unemployment","unmarried","vow","vows","wage","wages","wedding","wedding-vow","wedding-vows","weddings","woman","women","work"],"id":413765,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}