Profits Quotes

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Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it.… — John Ruskin
The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group.… — Charles August Lindbergh
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution… — Irving Fisher
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your healthâ€”more important than the environmentâ€”more important than your right to… — John Robbins
I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine. — Andrew Weil
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you… — Alfred P. Sloan
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun… — Herbert Hoover
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and… — Ludwig von Mises
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate… — Mitch Daniels
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild… — Vandana Shiva
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the… — Edward de Bono
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits — Milton Friedman
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.... — David Ricardo
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no… — David Ricardo
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new… — Thomas Sowell
The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose. — Tony Hsieh

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