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| {{notes|}} | | {{notes|VedaBase research queries: (1) bbt or "book trust" or "bhaktivedanta trust" or "book fund" or "book funds" and invest*; (2) "bbt invest*"#3}} |
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| {{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=0|Con=4|Let=7}} | | {{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=0|Con=8|Let=7}} |
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| [[Category:BBT]] | | [[Category:BBT|2]] |
| [[Category:Invest]] | | [[Category:Investing Money|2]] |
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| <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
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| | <div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| | <div id="MorningWalkThroughtheBBTWarehouseFebruary101975LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="4" link="Morning Walk Through the BBT Warehouse -- February 10, 1975, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk Through the BBT Warehouse -- February 10, 1975, Los Angeles"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk Through the BBT Warehouse -- February 10, 1975, Los Angeles|Morning Walk Through the BBT Warehouse -- February 10, 1975, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: It's very convenient for him to print here because he has all the credit from BBT, so the printers immediately want to do business with him.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: That's it. Yes, businessman never invests his own money. He does business with others' money. That is business. Just like I am doing. (laughter) I brought only forty rupees. That was also not spent. (laughter)</p> |
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| <div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> | | <div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| <div id="RoomConversationonFarmManagementDecember101976Hyderabad_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="345" link="Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad"> | | <div id="RoomConversationonFarmManagementDecember101976Hyderabad_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="345" link="Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now if possible, bring them, bring them first class prasādam, very palatable. Foodstuff means even one has no appetite he'll eat. That is food. Not that even one has got appetite, he'll forget. That is not food. So do like that and for money produce, use cane, sugar cane, rice. We shall spend for that. Don't spoil money, but do like businessman. He invests money, he gets a return. Spend it for Kṛṣṇa. That is wanted. There is no question of becoming a miser. I never did it. When I have got that farthing, I want to spend it. Immediately spend. Oh, what I have made this BBT? Immediately 50% for printing, and 50% for spreading this. (indistinct) and understand what I want to do. So whatever is done is done, now do it very nicely.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation on Farm Management -- December 10, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Now if possible, bring them, bring them first class prasādam, very palatable. Foodstuff means even one has no appetite he'll eat. That is food. Not that even one has got appetite, he'll forget. That is not food. So do like that and for money produce, use cane, sugar cane, rice. We shall spend for that. Don't spoil money, but do like businessman. He invests money, he gets a return. Spend it for Kṛṣṇa. That is wanted. There is no question of becoming a miser. I never did it. When I have got that farthing, I want to spend it. Immediately spend. Oh, what I have made this BBT? Immediately 50% for printing, and 50% for spreading this. (indistinct) and understand what I want to do. So whatever is done is done, now do it very nicely.</p> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> | | <div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| <div id="RoomConversationFebruary271977Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="108" link="Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura"> | | <div id="RoomConversationJanuary91977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="23" link="Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- January 9, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? I had previously told you that the BBT was... Because it's doing very heavy printing at the moment, say, for two months we need a little loan.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: You showed me you have got four lakhs.</p> |
| | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: That is including an accounts receivable. That money's invested in books.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Oh. Para-hasta tataṁ dhanam.</p> |
| | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Like Gargamuni owes BBT one and a half lakhs.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: I know that. That is called para-hasta tataṁ dhanaṁ puti-gata-vidyā. "I am very learned man." How? "Now I can speak when I see the books." That means "Personally, I have not assimilated anything. I can... And I have got money. I have to realize this." (laughter)</p> |
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| | <div id="RoomConversationFebruary271977Mayapura_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="108" link="Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rādhā-vallabha: Those books, they print themselves, the gurukula.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 27, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rādhā-vallabha: Those books, they print themselves, the gurukula.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: "Themself" means?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: "Themself" means?</p> |
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| <div id="RoomConversationOctober61977Vrndavana_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="239" link="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana"> | | <div id="RoomConversationJuly27281977Vrndavana_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="230" link="Room Conversation -- July 27-28, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 27-28, 1977, Vrndavana"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 27-28, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- July 27-28, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda was hoping you could print in larger quantities.</p> |
| | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, there's no need at the moment because we print these by offset. If we need more we can...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: All right. Whatever manuscript you have ready, print.</p> |
| | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Because it blocks up too much money otherwise, because we don't have much money, and we're going to print five books in Gujarati now, so we just invest the minimum.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: I want to see, whatever manuscript is ready, they should be printed.</p> |
| | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Also, Śrīla Prabhupāda, we've come out with Diwali cards this year. These are going to be very, very big. Inside is a message. We are selling hundreds of these. On this BBT will make a very big profit plus the temples will make a profit. We are selling these exclusively to our life members. And on the back is the mahā-mantra. I brought you a package with me. This is another sample.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="RoomConversationOctober61977Vrndavana_3" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="239" link="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: America, we are thinking of printing small books for them, because for America to get lower price on all books they have to print many hundred thousand. So many books of yours are out of print, out of stock with BBT Los Angeles. But we can get the same price on a lower run. That means that on lower investment we can print the same books, and in this way at least they will have some books in stock of every book you have published. So if somebody wants some book, they won't say that they don't have it, but they can supply it. So I've been writing about this to Rāmeśvara Swami.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: America, we are thinking of printing small books for them, because for America to get lower price on all books they have to print many hundred thousand. So many books of yours are out of print, out of stock with BBT Los Angeles. But we can get the same price on a lower run. That means that on lower investment we can print the same books, and in this way at least they will have some books in stock of every book you have published. So if somebody wants some book, they won't say that they don't have it, but they can supply it. So I've been writing about this to Rāmeśvara Swami.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: My point is, I don't wish to keep money in the bank. Invest in printing.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: My point is, I don't wish to keep money in the bank. Invest in printing.</p> |
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| <div id="RoomConversationOctober61977Vrndavana_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="239" link="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana"> | | <div id="RoomConversationOctober61977Vrndavana_4" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="239" link="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Don't keep money unnecessarily. Invest.</p> |
| | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, Śrīla Prabhupāda, there's no money. (laughs) BBT is... I'm always asking Hari-śauri to make his payment quickly, because we have invested everything into printing.</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="RoomConversationOctober61977Vrndavana_5" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="239" link="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Don't keep money unnecessarily. Invest.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 6, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Don't keep money unnecessarily. Invest.</p> |
| <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, Śrīla Prabhupāda, there's no money. (laughs) BBT is... I'm always asking Hari-śauri to make his payment quickly, because we have invested everything into printing.</p> | | <p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: No, Śrīla Prabhupāda, there's no money. (laughs) BBT is... I'm always asking Hari-śauri to make his payment quickly, because we have invested everything into printing.</p> |