Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates… — Bono Copy Share Image
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to… — Felix Dodds Copy Share Image
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
I smiled at the giant. “Actually, Cacus, I have another secret weapon.” The giant’s eyes lit up with greed. “Another weapon? I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the… — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
