Profit Quotes · Page 29

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

— Andre Gide

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

— Jacob Braude

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

— Erma Bombeck

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

— Malcolm Forbes

You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

— Anonymous

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

— Anonymous

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

— Noam Chomsky

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

— Horace

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

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

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as…

— Tom Scholz

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

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools…

— Anonymous

I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even…

— David Letterman

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

Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or,…

— Tulsi Tanti

We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament…

— Swami Vivekananda

I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which…

— Edward R. Murrow

Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the…

— Anthony de Mello

It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in…

— Margot Kidder

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher…

— Marva Collins

Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23…

— Kevin Bales

Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so…

— Jose Mujica

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

— Eliot Spitzer

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

— William J. Clinton

So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record…

— Patty Murray

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

— Simon Sinek

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

— Richard Whately

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

— Kevin Mitnick

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

— Thomas Tusser

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

— David Ricardo

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

— Jim Hightower

We need to help companies find profit opportunities abroad, not photo opportunities.

— Rajiv Shah

The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

— Hillary Clinton

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are…

— Nadia Boulanger

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce

A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.

— Andy Dunn

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

— Plautus