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What does it mean?
Business can generate profit, but friendship rarely brings money.
In plain terms
Friendship does not make money like business.
What can you take from it?
Friendship and profit have different goals.

Where it applies

  • negotiating business with friends
  • discussing relationships

Putting it to work

  • keep finance separate from friendship
  • value connection over cash

Questions to consider

  • Can friendship include business?
  • Is money a measure of friendship?

Another view

Ignores mutual financial support among friends.

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