Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a… — Rudolf Christoph Eucken Copy Share Image
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First… — Connie Sellecca Copy Share Image
I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
A restaurant, a small business lives day-by-day. If they're lucky they can make maybe up to 5% profit. That's not a lot. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss. — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of. — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.” — Thiruman Archunan Copy Share Image
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships. — Collis Potter Huntington Copy Share Image
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
