Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes,… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of… — Bob Davids Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Business has two ‘children’. One is called ‘loss’ and the other ‘profit’. No one likes the one called ‘loss’, but both are… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits… — Ted Strickland Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
We, in the business world, invest our money to make a profit. Sports teams make a good profit. That's the way the… — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
