EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,'… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf) You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who’s worse,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat 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
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
“We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding… — Don Nickles Copy Share Image
Now, I will say, most American companies - most are run by honorable patriotic people who care about their employees and communities.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more… — John Mackey 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
It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other.… — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced.… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich, Don't care about culture, they only want profit. If your album sell… — Cormega Copy Share Image
It's always very fun to play someone who's somewhat enigmatic, but at the same time there are underpinnings of real concern for… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports, — Elaine Chao Copy Share Image
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