When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse.… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the… — Frederic Morton Copy Share Image
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face… — Confucius Copy Share Image
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from… — David Kim Copy Share Image
