The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
We have an international system. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the… — Peter R. Orszag Copy Share Image
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind… — Ruth Harrison Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
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