As for a person, promoting ones ability in a job is the most important thing. Because money earns is just a basic requirement for each job, promoting ones ability during works will brings ourselves a large amount of advantages. For example, my neighbor Camille used to be a model of a advertisement company, she really earns a lot of money. Camille is hard-working either in daily photo-taken or in spare times. She learns skills by asking the photographer and taking picture regularly on her holidays. Later, the company close up and managers decided to move to another city. Camille lost her job, but she picks up photo-taking ability and then opens a wedding photography gallery. We could see that the most important thing for oneself is to enhance ones ability, which could easily broad our horizons.
Considering these two aspects, we ca safety come to the conclusion that the most important thing for a company is to bring the long-range benefit, and for a person is to promote ones ability. Earns money in a job is definitely not the most important thing in generally.