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1218 Profit quotes by 876 unique authors
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized…
— John Ralston Saul
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The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,…
— Max Weber
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In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before…
— Pope Francis
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Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so…
— Pope Paul VI
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Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a…
— Pope Francis
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The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working…
— Paul Krugman
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We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich…
— Paul Brooks
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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but…
— James C. Collins
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by…
— Umberto Eco
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than…
— Michael Parenti
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(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it…
— Peter Drucker
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It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
— Phil Harding
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Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century
— Unknown Author
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Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
— Jim Rohn
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The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no…
— Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring…
— George Sand
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that…
— William Shakespeare
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Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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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
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit…
— Anne Baxter
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We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present…
— Jane Fonda
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Profits are what you make when not working.
— Michael Pare
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