Profit Quotes · Page 14

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

— Philip Yancey

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

— Marya Mannes

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

— Richard Whately

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

— Michael Moore

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

— Josh Billings

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

— Ricardo Semler

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the…

— Winston Churchill

Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go…

— Josh Lawson

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's…

— Al Gore

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his…

— Hippocrates

Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than…

— John Robbins

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture.…

— Muhammad Yunus

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources…

— Ellen Meiksins Wood

First of all, Donald Trump cabinet or - I call it the 3-G cabinet, Goldman, generals and gazillionaires. And I think it's…

— Claire McCaskill

But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all…

— Pope Francis

I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor…

— Michael Yates

If bankers can push the loans and make more profits for the bank, they get paid higher bonuses. They often also get…

— Michael Hudson

It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This…

— Mariana Mazzucato

We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but…

— Dan Pallotta

The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made…

— Joe Conason

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

— David Ricardo

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when…

— Chris Matthews

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be…

— Noam Chomsky

It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty…

— Andy Murray

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

— Matt Taibbi

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

— William Eckhardt

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

A small business can survive for a while without making a profit, but if its cashflow dries up, the impact is fatal.

— Theo Paphitis

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

— Patrick Dixon

As long as a movie churns its own profit for their own budget it should be fine.

— Kabir Khan

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

— James Buchan

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

— George Orwell

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

— Jeff Henderson

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction…

— Randal Cremer

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

— Sam Walton

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter