We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother. — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment. — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour. — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image