Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees. — Paul Hudson Copy Share Image
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government.… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably… — Jimmy Wales 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
The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any… — Liza Featherstone 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
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits. — Ben Chestnut Copy Share Image
Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050 — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer! — Ovid Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive. — Jeff Henderson Copy Share Image
Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
