For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity.… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility.… — Akio Morita 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
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs… — Henry Chesbrough Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals.… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
“Drop down someone else's shoe and run to take your own quickly. Don't hire your own to anybody, else it profits you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
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
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
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
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ.… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons.… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image