For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine… — Darren L Johnson Copy Share Image
Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or,… — Tulsi Tanti Copy Share Image
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting… — Kenneth Mason Copy Share Image
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there… — Mayer Amschel Rothschild Copy Share Image
