Profit Motive Quotes
- The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the… — Lachlan Murdoch
- The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to… — Will Durant
- People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz.… — Ian MacKaye
- The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of… — Joe Conason
- We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook
- Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz
- [There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet,… — Unknown Author
- The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while… — E.C. Riegel
- There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for… — Naomi Klein
- However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they… — Steven Pinker
- I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the… — Tim O'Reilly
- People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey
- When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support… — Dwight David Eisenhower