It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite… — Josh Billings 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
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day… — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
“Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it… — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow… — Louis V. Gerstner, Jr Copy Share Image
If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily… — Jeff Henderson Copy Share Image
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are… — Leslie Moonves Copy Share Image
While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon… — William Lawson Copy Share Image
Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized, — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
“Business is an excuse to build a team and product is what the team does. You have to pay salaries so you… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as… — Charles Cotton Copy Share Image
“It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is... Eventually you will have run other people out of their money — Jorebungley Copy Share Image
As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
