He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished… — Max Azria Copy Share Image
At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits.… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
But Al Jazeera America represents something more than news that isn’t profit or ratings driven — they represent foreign investment in a… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Germany is not a fair country. Millions of people believe that things aren't fair in this country. Company profits and bonus payments… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily… — Jeff Henderson Copy Share Image
The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow… — Louis V. Gerstner, Jr Copy Share Image
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just… — Enele Sopoaga Copy Share Image
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where… — Anant Agarwal Copy Share Image
It must operate at a profit. You can't have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image