We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized, — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future. — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the… — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the… — Kate Richards O'Hare Copy Share Image
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is... Eventually you will have run other people out of their money — Jorebungley Copy Share Image
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as… — Charles Cotton Copy Share Image
Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
“Business is an excuse to build a team and product is what the team does. You have to pay salaries so you… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image