Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits… — J. S. Woodsworth Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not referring to an up-and-coming comedian. I am referring to the host of The Profit. He invests his own money into… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we… — Charles Leadbeater Copy Share Image
There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she… — Clark Clifford Copy Share Image
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks,… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership,… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
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