Should we still be friends when it could be more…

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks…

— Wendell Berry

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and…

— James Rouse

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase…

— Charlie Munger

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media…

— Karl Rove

“I can hear you preach about freedom, yet your motive that makes me listened.”

— Toba Beta

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

— James Surowiecki

I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the…

— George Carlin

[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism.…

— Robert Sirico

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

— Philip Yancey

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part…

— Bill Browder

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

— Andre Gide

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of…

— Edward Gibbon

“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the…

— Toba Beta

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and…

— Alphonsus Rodriguez