Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable,… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests.… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as… — Frederic C. Howe 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
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy… — Dean Spade 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
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
This is nothing more than a public land grab for private profit. The BLM is literally giving this away to corporations…This may… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his… — James Kirke Paulding Copy Share Image
When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising… — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you… — George Soros Copy Share Image
One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image