East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of… — Pierre Bosquet Copy Share Image
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security),… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“What does it profit man if he allows a nonentity to make him look irrelevant just because he wants to indirectly have… — Bayode Ojo Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a… — Meister Eckhart 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
We will end the politics of profit. We will end the rule of special interests. We will end the raiding of our… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses… — John Newton Copy Share Image
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When consumers know things, they tend to make informed choices, and that could affect corporate profits. I'm sorry, but your right to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Everybody has to get up and do their jobs to get things together, and that's it. And I've always been able to… — Russ Meyer Copy Share Image
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower.… — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
