Profit Quotes · Page 21

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

— Lisa Bonet

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

— Milton Friedman

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

— Taika Waititi

“Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

— Suzy Kassem

“The employer is ultimately interested in the growth of the business, not that of the employee.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

— Natalie Merchant

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

— Helen Keller

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur…

— Lady Gregory

What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose…

— Zhang Zhao

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if…

— Ayn Rand

Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life…

— Lewis Black

Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to…

— Marcus Aurelius

You must find something you want to live for that's bigger than yourself - a mission - whether it's your children, a…

— Tony Robbins

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is…

— Lewis Hine

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization…

— Noam Chomsky

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons -…

— Pete Earley

All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but…

— Pope Francis

Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded…

— Paul Samuelson

Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant,…

— Christopher Titus

The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will…

— Louis O. Kelso

What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a…

— Anonymous

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,…

— Baron d'Holbach

While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world,…

— Assata Shakur

I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else…

— Derrick Jensen

The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.

— John McDonnell

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of…

— Rick Renzi

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

— Mariana Mazzucato

“Every person is a project, God's project, I want to be the most profitable one.”

— Amit Kalantri

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

— Harry Redknapp

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

— Anonymous

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

— Peter Drucker

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the…

— Helen Keller

“A true businessman capitalizes off other people's failures & problems.”

— Keriza

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

— Carlos Ghosn

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

— Warren Buffett

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

— Pete Domenici