Profit Quotes · Page 14

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.

— Alan Patricof

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

— Jane Fonda

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

— Aristophanes

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

— Peter Stuyvesant

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

— Leon Leonwood Bean

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are…

— Henry Miller

IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money…

— Jack Ma

When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit…

— Maya Angelou

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their…

— Nina Turner

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as…

— Michael Moore

When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single…

— William Ellery Channing

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you…

— will.i.am

One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely…

— Charles Hugh Smith

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

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme…

— Ludwig von Mises

Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding,…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for…

— Edgar Degas

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is…

— Anonymous

For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work…

— Charlie Munger

Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify…

— Richard Sennett

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

— Eden Phillpotts

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people…

— Smedley Butler

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

— Ramsay MacDonald

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

— Sam Ewing

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

— John F. Kennedy

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

— Walt Disney

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

— James Gould Cozzens

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

— Akio Morita

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

— Michele Bachmann

Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and…

— Ben Domenech

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

— Trixie Mattel

I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.

— Mercedes Lackey

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

— Boris Johnson

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

— Caroline Lucas

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

— William A. Dembski