There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of… — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow… — Alexa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image