All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle… — Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Copy Share Image
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
While this is not a part of what Martin Shkreli's being indicted for, there is sort of the overall picture of somebody… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
You are being intentionally monitored so that your unique biases, your anxieties, your weaknesses, your needs, your desires can be quantified in… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S.… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
