Profit Quotes · Page 20

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

— Horace

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

— Anonymous

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

— Noam Chomsky

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

— Thomas Tusser

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record…

— Patty Murray

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

— Simon Sinek

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

— Richard Whately

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time…

— Mike Rogers

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while…

— Samuel Johnson

One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important…

— Larry Brilliant

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you…

— George Soros

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there.…

— Albert Maltz

Manipulating the bond market is so greatly reducing the cost of capital that so far companies have been able to maintain profit…

— Porter Stansberry

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to…

— Albert Einstein

The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them.…

— Simon Mainwaring

I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people…

— Marco Rubio

It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in…

— Margot Kidder

Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher…

— Marva Collins

Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the…

— Anthony de Mello

The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It…

— Tom Hanks

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

— Edward Gibbon

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce…

— Milton Friedman

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

— Kevin Mitnick

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

— Erma Bombeck

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

— Malcolm Forbes

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

— Winston Churchill

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

— Jacob Braude

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

— Andre Gide

You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

— Anonymous

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or…

— Billy Graham

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

— Peter Drucker

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

— George Herbert

If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

— Anita Roddick

I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

— Fujio Mitarai

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

— Andrew Weil

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

— Frederick Soddy

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

— Mahatma Gandhi