“Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees. — Paul Hudson Copy Share Image
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Life is divided into three terms-that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only… — Sam Sheppard Copy Share Image
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor… — James Grant Copy Share Image
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the… — Peter Middlebrook Copy Share Image
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity,… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer! — Ovid Copy Share Image
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits. — Ben Chestnut Copy Share Image
Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050 — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
