Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first. — Fujio Mitarai Copy Share Image
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Millennials want to work for organizations that prioritize purpose as well as profit. It's as simple as that. — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
I believe that it is the responsibility of everyone in corporate life to help with the funding of non-profit organizations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique… — Jack White Copy Share Image
A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices… The prejudiced against color finds several… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The world is undoubtedly going through great changes. The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification:… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented. — Monroe Trout Copy Share Image
The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose. — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem. — Jeff Henderson Copy Share Image
It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times,… — Mian Muhammad Mansha Copy Share Image
I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always… — Geoff Capes Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image